Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

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Summary

Rorty examines human solidarity and liberalism through literature, philosophy, social theory and literary criticism.

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Preface
Introduction
Contingency
The contingency of language
The contingency of selfhood
The contingency of a liberal community
Ironism and Theory
Private irony and liberal hope
Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger
From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida
Cruelty and Solidarity
The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty
The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty
Solidarity
Index of names
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