Richard Rorty: Contingency, Irony and Solidarity / chapter 6

Richard Rorty: Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
Chapter 6 - From Ironist Theory to Private Allusions: Derrida
Rorty rehabilitates Derrida by reading him not as a public philosopher offering a theory of language or politics, but as a private writer - essentially a fantasist engaged in self-creation through wordplay and allusion. He argues that Derrida is best understood alongside Proust rather than alongside Habermas, and that attempts to extract a political programme from deconstruction are misguided.

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