Princeton University Press eBooks· 2015· Book chapter

58. Contingency, Irony and Solidarity

Richard Rorty

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Richard Rorty's 1989 book argues that thinkers like Nietzsche and Wittgenstein have shown societies they are historical contingencies, not expressions of fixed human nature.

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