Take care of egotism, and redemption will take care of itself: Comments on Tracy Llanera's Richard Rorty: Outgrowing modern nihilism

IF 0.4 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI:10.1111/meta.12638
Paul D. G. Showler
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This commentary critically examines two facets of Tracy Llanera's recent book Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism. First, it considers her interpretation of Richard Rorty's redemptive project. It argues that, while Llanera succeeds in resolving tensions in Rorty's public-private distinction, her account downplays the role of abnormal discourse within projects of self-creation. Second, it raises several questions about Llanera's strategy for situating this redemptive project within debates concerning existential nihilism. On her view, one ought to follow Rorty in addressing the problem of egotism instead of the problem of nihilism, since the former is prior to the latter. But it is not clear who counts as an egotist, or why egotists are especially prone to becoming nihilists. Moreover, there are reasons to think that egotism and nihilism are fundamentally different kinds of problems.

照顾好利己主义,救赎就会照顾好自己——评特雷西·拉涅拉的《理查德·罗蒂:超越现代虚无主义》
这篇评论批判性地审视了特雷西·拉内拉的新书《理查德·罗蒂:超越现代虚无主义》的两个方面。首先,它考虑了她对理查德·罗蒂(Richard Rorty)救赎计划的解读。它认为,虽然Llanera成功地解决了罗蒂公私区分中的紧张关系,但她的叙述淡化了自我创造项目中异常话语的作用。其次,它提出了关于Llanera在关于存在虚无主义的辩论中定位这个救赎项目的策略的几个问题。在她看来,人们应该跟随罗蒂来解决利己主义问题,而不是虚无主义问题,因为前者先于后者。但目前尚不清楚谁是自我主义者,也不清楚为什么自我主义者特别容易成为虚无主义者。此外,有理由认为利己主义和虚无主义是根本不同的问题。
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期刊介绍: Metaphilosophy publishes articles and reviews books stressing considerations about philosophy and particular schools, methods, or fields of philosophy. The intended scope is very broad: no method, field, or school is excluded.
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