A Koala's Face, A pig Slaughter, And Rorty's Conception of Self and of Society
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The paper is part of a big research of pragmatic conception of knowledge, constitution of the Self, of the society, and of democracy that is is carried out by The Central European Pragmatic Forum. The author points out the weaker aspects of Richard Rorty's philosophical ideas. The weakness, according to him, is a consequence of postanalytic tradition derived from Sellars and Davidson that handles experience as something opaque and unimportant. The tradition overly stresses language and discourse. In this respect, Rorty is not the heretic he has been taken to be. He continues in broader tradition established by analytic philosophy as well as by phenomenology and hermeneutics. At the end of his text, the author attempts to show that this limitation influences in a negative way the conception of the interrelation between self and society. |