The Challenges of Post-Philosophy
The purpose of this paper is to outline a conceptual map of Rorty’s post-philosophical endeavor. This endeavor serves the purpose of reevaluating and rethinking the West as a project specific to philosophy, enabling a view of the West from a different perspective – as a non-philosophical project thr...
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European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
2024
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| Summary: | The purpose of this paper is to outline a conceptual map of Rorty’s post-philosophical endeavor. This endeavor serves the purpose of reevaluating and rethinking the West as a project specific to philosophy, enabling a view of the West from a different perspective – as a non-philosophical project through which an open liberal and post-philosophical culture are developed. Part one of the paper focuses on the problem of truth in traditional philosophy and shows how Rorty observes the challenges that philosophy faces as it falls into the trap of searching for the truth. Rorty asserts that he and the pragmatists simply do not offer any “theory of truth”; instead, he employs the formulation “theory about truth.” Furthermore, the paper will examine the rhetorical strategies and the anti-essentialist redescription of liberalism. Instead of a conclusion, the paper focuses on universal irony in the light of post-philosophical laughter, which is often oversimplified as a callous reaction of cynical mirth, which can be swiftly repudiated when considering its broad context of the meaning that irony and laughter would hold in Rorty’s liberal society. |
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