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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Overview

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity is a 1989 book by the American philosopher Richard Rorty, based on two sets of lectures he gave at University College, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In contrast to his earlier work, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty mostly abandons attempts to explain his theories in analytical terms and instead creates an alternate vocabulary to that of the "Platonists" he rejects. In this vocabulary, "truth" (as the term is used conventionally) is considered unintelligible and meaningless.

The book is divided into three parts: "Contingency", "Ironism and Theory", and "Cruelty and Solidarity".

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Philosophers who discussed Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

• Richard Rorty
• Jacques Derrida

Related ideas

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• George Orwell
• Übermensch
• Contingency (philosophy)
• Metaphysics
• Richard Rorty
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Property
• Truth
• The New York Times
• Trinity College, Cambridge
• Good
• Martin Heidegger
• The Journal of Philosophy
• Moral relativism
• Jacques Derrida
• Bernard Williams
• Art for art's sake
• Fact
• Alasdair MacIntyre
• Animal Farm
• Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
• Jenny Teichman
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Place in the tradition

Part of Relativism.

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