Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Cover of the first edition
Author	Richard Rorty
Language	English
Subject	Philosophy
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	1989
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover · paperback)
Pages	201
ISBN	978-0-521-35381-6
Dewey Decimal	401 19
LC Class	P106 .R586 1989

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity is a 1989 book by the American philosopher Richard Rorty, based on two sets of lectures he gave at University College, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In contrast to his earlier work, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty mostly abandons attempts to explain his theories in analytical terms and instead creates an alternate conceptual schema to that of the "Platonists" he rejects. In this schema "truth" (as the term is used conventionally) is considered unintelligible and meaningless.

The book is divided into three parts: "Contingency", "Ironism and Theory", and "Cruelty and Solidarity".