Richard Rorty: Contingency, Irony and Solidarity / chapter 9

Richard Rorty: Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
Chapter 9 - Solidarity
The closing chapter tries to hold together the book's two halves. Rorty defends a pragmatist liberalism that doesn't need metaphysical foundations — we don't have to ground our commitment to reducing cruelty in claims about human nature or objective moral truth. Solidarity is enough. He positions this against both Foucault's pessimism about liberal institutions and demands for a more theoretically rigorous politics.

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