Palgrave Macmillan | Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism (2020 EN)

Author: Tracy Llanera
Full Title: Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2020 edition (June 25, 2021)
Year: 2020
ISBN-13: 9783030450588 (978-3-030-45058-8), 9783030450571 (978-3-030-45057-1), 9783030450601 (978-3-030-45060-1)
ISBN-10: 3030450589, 3030450570, 3030450600
Pages: 167
Language: English
Genre: Philosophy: Social Philosophy
File type: PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 80.24 €


The book makes a new contribution to the contemporary debates on nihilism and the sacred. Drawing on an original interpretation of Richard Rorty’s writings, it challenges the orthodox treatment of nihilism as a malaise that human beings must overcome.Instead, nihilism should be framed as a problem for human culture to outgrow through pragmatism.


Overview:
✓ Makes a new contribution to the philosophical debate on nihilism.
✓ Challenges the dominant claim by various philosophers that nihilism is a problem to overcome.
✓ Argues that nihilism is a problem to be "outgrown."

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