Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty

ISBN-13: 9780860916598 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 160 str.

Norman Geras

Opis

This study engages with the work of Richard Rorty - an influential champion of human, radical liberalism - to explore the paradoxes of a philosophy which rejects any determinate view of human nature. It begins by considering Rorty's thesis concerning rescuer behaviour during the Holocaust. Measuring it against existing research on the subject and testimony of rescuers themselves, the author questions Rorty's use of their moral example as a challenge to universalist assumptions.