Richard Rorty : outgrowing modern nihilism /: outgrowing modern nihilism. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tracy Llanera.
• Authors: Llanera, Tracy
• Contents: 1. The Great Debate Why Rorty? The 'Spiritual' Spiritual Disjointedness The Book 2. Overcoming Nihilism Nietzsche: The 'Uncanniest of All Guests' Heidegger: When the Hammer Breaks Taylor: Modern Moral Sources Dreyfus and Kelly: 'Whooshing' Up Rorty the Nihilist? Three Cases Conclusion 3. The Concept of Redemption Essentialism and Edification Romantic Polytheism The Religious Impulse Rise of the Literary Culture Liberal Democracy A New Self-Image Religious Nostalgia Conclusion 4. Averting Nihilism Egotism The Private-Public Distinction Self-Creation and Solidarity Self-Enlargement Nihilism and Egotism Post-Metaphysical Redemption Conclusion 5. Pragmatist Transcendence The Ambition to Transcendence Vertical Transcendence and the Onto-Theological Tradition Horizontal Transcendence and Pragmatism Strong and Weak Transcendence Three Concerns Conclusion 6. The Nihilisms of Our Time.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 149.8; Nihilism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030450588
• Related ISBNs: 9783030450571
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