Rorty on Politics, Culture, and Philosophy: A Defence of his Romanticism

• Authors: Miklós Nyírő
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Rorty's historicist romanticism is a peculiar and oft criticized feature of his neopragmatism. I attempt to show that it should be regarded not so much as a more or less exceptionable philosophical approach, but rather, as a practice in ‘cultural politics’-which is his ultimate definition for philosophy-prompted by his acute political concerns and his views on the nature of moral progress.

Keywords

EN

Crisis of contemporary liberal democracies; romanticism; historicism; cultural politics

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 60-67

Dates

published

2009-06-01

online

2009-03-21

Contributors

author

Miklós Nyírő

• Institute of Philosophy, University of Miskolc, Wesselényi u. 40, 1075 Budapest, Hungary

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-009-0021-0