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13 - Richard Rorty: liberalism, irony, and social hope
- By Michael Bacon
Edited by Catherine H. Zuckert, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Book:

Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

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05 June 2012

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29 August 2011, pp 198-212
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature was extremely successful, attracting a readership not only in philosophy but also across the arts and humanities. Although committed to the Enlightenment, Richard Rorty thinks it important to distinguish between what he regards as its two legacies: the philosophical and the political. By distinguishing between the philosophical and political elements of the Enlightenment, Rorty departs from classical liberalism. Rorty states that a society that has come to accept that justice is its first virtue will become accustomed to the thought that social policy needs no more authority than successful accommodation among individuals, individuals who find themselves heir to the same historical traditions and faced with the same problems. Rorty himself epitomizes the notion of the liberal ironist, ready to reread and revise the thinkers he encounters in order to offer redescriptions of issues in political theory and political life.

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