1. Rorty on Religion and History.
- Author
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KREMER, Alexander
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RELIGION & politics , *DEMOCRACY , *HISTORY , *PRAGMATISM , *RELIGION - Abstract
I shall prove my overall thesis that Rorty consistently enforces his politically saturated liberal ironic standpoint in the fields of religion and history from his Contingency book (1989). As a neopragmatist thinker he gives priority to politics in the sense of a liberal democracy over everything else. I shall analyze briefly his neopragmatist thoughts in general in the first part. This shows Rorty as a liberal ironist who regards almost everything as contingent, except democracy. In the second part I shall interpret his main views about religion in connection with his political thoughts. Finally, I shall show that history also belongs to the contingent social phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2010