A Study Of Richard Rorty's Neo-Pragmatist View Of Literature Culture

Richard Rorty,as a neo-pragmatist philosopher,has been well known.However,his research on literary theory and literary culture has not yet formed a scale.The only research results reflect the views of different opinions,which has not formed a consensus in the academic circle.Rorty's literary and cultural view is logically consistent with his post-philosophical and cultural thought,and also contains the practical spirit and exploration of pragmatism.Therefore,it is also an important part of Rorty's thought pedigree and a new dimension and perspective to understand Rorty's thought.It has certain theoretical and practical significance for Chinese academic circles to understand the essence of literature and its social function.Based on the interpretation of Rorty's concept of literary culture,this paper attempts to describe the overall outlook of literary culture,and then to explore the literary culture in the dimension of post-philosophical culture and Neo-pragmatism.Rorty's view of literature advocates abandoning the philosophical rational way of thinking and turning to perceptual narration.In the context of historicism,he "re-describes" things under the influence of metaphor and irony,so that all things that are regarded as unchangeable can present new features.Rorty's view of literary culture is the product of sublimation of literary significance,a Utopia of aestheticism and humanism,and also Rorty's hope that the world after philosophy can only be saved by literature.Rorty values the humanistic function of literature and elevates it to the level of culture.He advocates that people can enhance individual sensitivity through imagination to enhance sympathy for others and promote social unity,fairness and justice.The introduction part summarizes Rorty's life experience and thought changes,combs the overall study of Rorty's thought and the current situation of his thoughts,and focuses on the significance of taking Rorty's literary and cultural view as the research object.Rorty holds the post-modern position,which is not compromise to the traditional metaphysics,and keeps the attitude of reflection,criticism and subversion,which makes his thoughts complex and profound.From these complex thoughts,the author analyzes Rorty's academic position,academic methods and academic purposes,and takes literary culture as the lever of Rorty's thought.Meanwhile,it points out that literature as a subject with aesthetic function and social significance has been in ups and downs recently.Rorty can return to tradition and point the road of salvation to the literary side,which is very difficult to be valuable.Chapter two is open to the public,traces the emergence of the concept of "literary culture".Firstly,it summarizes the three stages of literary culture establishment,then analyzes the connotation of "literature culture" of Rorty,and proposes that in the humanistic Utopia created by Rorty,as a literary type of "literature culture",including poetry,novel and drama,and other literary types,compared with the literature culture,it is relatively Religion,philosophy and science are not higher than other disciplines,which makes it clear that Rorty's view of literature is that he not only places the hope of philosophy on literature,but also does not give literature the privilege of surpassing other disciplines.What Rorty tried to construct is a humanistic Utopia which takes politics instead of science,literature instead of philosophy,psychology instead of ethics and life instead of theory.The third chapter is the core part of this paper,which systematically explains the literary and cultural view under the Rorty's pos-philosophy and culture thought.Rorty deconstructs the concepts of human heart,self,essence,universality and necessity in traditional philosophy by means of thorough contingency theory,and takes it as the basis of modern liberalism Utopia.Then it reveals the value of literature in Rorty's eyes.Literature describes an accidental world by showing the accidental events in life,thus discovering the multiple possibilities of life,which enables more people to realize that life is still interesting,lovely and worthy of living after abandoning the determined world essence and eternal human nature.Therefore,the importance of literature and culture is reflected in the importance of literature and culture.The inspiration to life brought by uncertainty.The literature culture promoted by Rorty is a kind of metaphysical culture.His understanding of imagination inherits and develops Dewey's moral imagination.As an important narrative form,novels can directly show the "cruelty" suffered by individuals and races than philosophy and theory.Therefore,Orwell and Dickens occupy an important position in Rorty's heart.The writer is good at using irony to constantly revise and perfect his "ultimate vocabulary",so as to constantly describe things again and again.After the transformation of the irony,the function of literature and culture can be embodied.Through the reading of literature,especially the novel,people can obtain "self-discipline self",and realize self redemption and personal perfection.The fourth chapter focuses on the ideological origin of Rorty's neo-pragmatism.Rorty's neo-pragmatism is not directly derived from the Classical Pragmatism,but on the basis of inheriting the Classical Pragmatism,especially Dewey and James' "concern for reality",injects the gene of Anglo American Analytical Philosophy and European philosophy.Wittgenstein's "language game",Silas' s criticism of "given myth" and Davidson's "metaphor theory",Nietzsche and Heidegger's tendency of anti-essentialism and romanticism all have a profound impact on Rorty.Rorty's neo-pragmatism abandons the emphasis on "experience" and turns to "language",advocating "re-description" of things in the context of "Post-Philosophy".Finally,it points out the essence of the post-philosophical cultural view,which is an anti-essentialism philosophy view,pragmatism truth view,accidental self-cognition view and "truth is metaphor" language view.The fifth chapter mainly summarizes the influence of Rorty's New Pragmatism on Chinese academic circles and society,as well as the existing problems and limitations.Rorty's thought effectively dispels the "either this or that" mode of thinking in Contemporary Chinese academic circles.He does not advocate that "this or that" is compatible with each other.Instead,he advocates that the distinction between projects should be dispelled,so that the boundaries between the two become blurred and integrated into one.Rorty pays more attention to the social function of literature than to the laws and characteristics of literary text itself.Although Rorty plays the role of literature to the extreme in his own world and greatly enriches the connotation and extension of literature,as a discipline parallel to philosophy,science and religion,it has its own clear research direction As for the image and the unique operation rules,Rorty should not turn a blind eye to these original rules which he considers to be the so-called "essence",but only pay attention to the social function of literature,obliterating the independent value of literature as a science.