Solidarity, objectivity, and the human form of life
Wittgenstein vs. Rorty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6251589 |
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| Authors | Greg Hill (0000-0002-3022-3737, a Seattle Office of Management and Planning , 300 Municipal Bldg., Seattle, WA, 98104 Phone: Fax: E-mail, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 555-580 |
| Publication date | 1997-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913819708443476 |
| OpenAlex | W1569005168 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Reason, objectivity, and human nature are now suspect ideas. Among postmodern thinkers, Richard Rorty has advanced an especially forceful critique of these notions. Drawing partly on Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, Rorty contends that objectivity is no more than a metaphysical name for intersubjective agreement, and that “human nature” is an empty category, there being nothing beneath history and culture. Wittgenstein himself, however, recognized within the world's many civilizations “the common behavior of mankind,” without which Rorty's ethnocentric “solidarity” would be inconceivable. This common form of life—the life of those who speak—encompasses countless human activities that presuppose and are interwoven with the concepts of reason and objectivity
Epistemology · Ethnocentrism · Human life · Humanity · Metaphysics · Nothing · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Postmodernism · Reflexive pronoun · Skepticism · Sociology · Solidarity · Surprise · Suspect · Theology · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Highly cited | No |
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