Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

In this book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.Richard Rorty is the author of 'Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity', published 1989 under ISBN 9780521353816 and ISBN 0521353815.