within the linguistic paradigm, there is a problem that was always connected with coherence conceptions of truth: how we may, in light of the evidence available to us, raise an unconditional truth claim that aims beyond what is justified. in other words, within the linguistic paradigm, if the truth of a proposition can no longer be conceived as correspondence with something in the world, then h...

In this paper, I discuss the importance of practices disidentification and imagination for democratic progress change. To end, bring together certain aspects Stanley Cavell’s Richard Rorty’s reflections on democracy, aesthetics, morality with Jacques Rancière’s account appearance participation. With Rancière, it can be shown that any public–political order always involves possibility (and often...

RESUMO: O artigo enfoca a relevância de uma dimensão política no psíquico. Em nossa hermenêutica sobre o tema, em um primeiro momento, abordaremos as linhas gerais ruptura com modelos filosóficos metafísicos do self, tendo como exemplo críticas Rorty e Heidegger à “intencionalidade consciência” Jean-Paul Sartre; bem contraponto rortiano leitura epistemológica da psicanálise Paul Ricoeur. segund...

Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas (1871) has become a touchstone of democratic theory. Commentators unusual ideological range uphold the book as politically exemplary. This article demonstrates that recent theoretical celebrations are sanitized and incomplete. I expose antidemocratic side by analyzing (1) its philosophy death (2) politics race. Whitman framed his immortalist response to within a...

Aim. The aim of this study is to analyze and evaluate two versions the theory liberalism which emerged within philosophical tradition pragmatism: Richard Rorty’s “ironic liberalism” John Dewey’s “renascent liberalism”.
 Methods. based on: 1) comparative analysis, shows differences points contact between classical pragmatism neo-pragmatism, in particular, different their liberal theories; 2...

Let us begin with a generalisation: Richard Rorty’s approach to literature is consistently – to use his own opposition – ‘solidarity-related’; what he calls the ‘other side’, literary self-creation, remains programmatically and intentionally undiscussed. One gets the impression that literature, and the novel in particular, is being burdened with an (‘unbearable’) heaviness of responsibility. Do...