Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism

✍ Scribed by Tracy Llanera

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 173
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book makes a new contribution to the contemporary debates on nihilism and the sacred. Drawing on an original interpretation of Richard Rorty’s writings, it challenges the orthodox treatment of nihilism as a malaise that human beings must overcome. Instead, nihilism should be framed as a problem for human culture to outgrow through pragmatism.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
The Great Debate (Tracy Llanera)....Pages 1-21
Overcoming Nihilism (Tracy Llanera)....Pages 23-50
The Concept of Redemption (Tracy Llanera)....Pages 51-83
Averting Nihilism (Tracy Llanera)....Pages 85-121
Pragmatist Transcendence (Tracy Llanera)....Pages 123-144
The Nihilisms of Our Time (Tracy Llanera)....Pages 145-152
Back Matter ....Pages 153-167

✦ Subjects

Philosophy; Social Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Pragmatism; Philosophy of Religion

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