FILOZOFIA RIEŠI PROBLÉM AMERICKEJ VÝNIMOČNOSTI: PRÍPAD RICHARD RORTY

• Authors: Kolárová Alica

Title variants

EN

Philosophy solving the problem of American exceptionalism: The case of Richard Rorty

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper tries to explain an interesting shift in the philosophy of Richard Rorty, which took place after he started to pay attention to the renewal of the idea of American exceptionalism. Suddenly he stopped talking about destructing 'the old ladders' and focused on the reconstruction and revision on the basis of religion and American Enlightenment which are the sources of American exceptionalism and civic religion. Actually he abandoned his atheist position and called for the diversity of the religious experience ('romantic polytheism') as a clue to liberal and democratic morality.

Keywords

EN

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM; CIVIC RELIGION; LIBERALISM; ROMANTIC POLYTHEISM; RORTY RICHARD

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 311-317
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kolárová Alica

• A. Kolarova, Filozoficky ustav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA04298365