9780521353816 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $59.95 |
About this edition: In this book, major American philosopher Richard 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.
9780521367813, titled "Contingency, Irony and Solidarity" | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $32.99 |
About this edition: In this book, major American philosopher Richard 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.