BAUMAN ENTRE HABERMAS E RICHARD RORTY: INTERPRETAÇÕES...

This paper analyzes the dialogue that the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman established with two great names of contemporary Philosophy: Jürgen Habermas and Richard Rorty. For this purpose, the paper addresses Bauman's works written in different moments of his career. It demonstrates and explains the sociologist's criticisms to Habermas's philosophy and inclinations to Richard Rorty's Philosophy. It concludes with a comment on the influence of Habermas and Rorty on Bauman's Sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]