Journal article
Solidarity as Public Morality: Reconstructing Rorty's Case for the Political Value of the Philosopher
Contemporary pragmatism, v 11(1), pp 153-170
01 Jun 2014
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Abstract
I reconstruct Rorty's account of the specific roles and practices that make philosophy as a profession politically valuable. While he makes clear why it is that the work of metaphysics is unfit for public consumption and that seeking to ground political practice in theory is at best a distraction, I show that he is equally concerned about reliance on ironism to address political concerns. Both metaphysics and ironism should be regarded as private means of edification. The political value of the philosopher instead resides in her willingness to be either a pragmatist or a prophet: one who clears away conceptual roadblocks strewn throughout the tradition or inspires hope in imagined future communities marked by increased solidarity.
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- Title
- Solidarity as Public Morality: Reconstructing Rorty's Case for the Political Value of the Philosopher
- Creators
- Andrew F. Smith
- Publication Details
- Contemporary pragmatism, v 11(1), pp 153-170
- Publisher
- Brill
- Number of pages
- 18
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000343272200013
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84994275358
- Other Identifier
- 991019168512604721
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