Rethinking Redemption in Modernity

by Tracy Ann Llanera

In his tribute article for Richard Rorty in 2008, Richard Bernstein describes Rorty's corpus of writings as stirred by the singular force of the maxim that "there is nothing that we can rely on but ourselves and our fellow human beings."1 It strikes one curious, then, why Rorty would capitalize on the religiously-laden idea of "redemption" in his later essays. 2 In 2001, Rorty published "Redemption from Egotism: James and Proust as Spiritual Exercises"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835203736
• ISBN13: 9781835203736
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Abhimanyuhb2
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"