Author: Ryder Richards
Step 88: Rorty’s Cruelty, Solidarity, and Liberal Hope
Rorty uses Nabokov and Orwell to show cruelty and solidarity, but his ideas have been subverted.
Step 87: Rorty’s Ironists and Metaphysicians
The liberal ironist’s contingent redescription versus the metaphysicians’ truth-chasing.
Step 86: Rorty’s Contingency
The contingency part of Richard Rorty’s “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”
Step 85: The Semantic Drift of “Good”
From nobility and strength to a function of utility and compliance
Step 84: Language Failure: How Words Shape Our Reality
Language drift as concept creep allows us to avoid reality
