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Richard Rorty, The New Pragmatism Literary Theory Thought

Posted on:2007-10-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:K Y HanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360185482853Subject:Literature and art
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Richard Rorty is one of the most influential but the most embarrassed ideologist in the American nowadays. Rorty depended the analysis philosophy to become famous. Afterwards, he became the reviewer of the western and traditional philosophy and analysis philosophy. Rorty made every effort to criticize the epistemological tradition of the west philosophy from Plato, that making track for the truth and over-emphasizes to study the subjective and objective and their meaning. Rorty made American traditional pragmatism combines with the post-modernism theories of the European Continent together, he expanded the neo-pragmatism thought that claim to the polycentrism( oppose any essence to pursue), claim to the whole theory( oppose any two dollar distinction), claim to the historicism( oppose any history standard) with the aggressive carriage. And, he took the lead to escape from the profession's college philosophy realm, throwing in the culture comment, literature theories, political theories, social morals etc which even has more influence.Currently, our research on Rorty pays more attention to his philosophy and sociologies thought, but seldom investigate the thought of his literature thought after he changed into the public knowledge member. In this paper, 1 try to comb the literature thought of Rorty clearly, I try to fix attention on the neo-pragmatism truth view which claim that the environment is really true, the description is diverse, and I will to clarify two greatest points of Rorty's thought: the polycentrism of anti- essence, and the race center doctrine of history. Afterwards, we analyze the shining of Rorty's neo-pragmatism truth view on literature theories and the reflection in Rorty's literature theories thought of diverse doctrine of view and the race center doctrine positions. At last, we put Rorty's literature theories thought in the theories environment of nowadays to give comprehensive evaluation.This paper is constituted by three parts. The first part introduces the neo-pragmatism truth view thought of Rorty; the second part analyzes him in a specific...
Keywords/Search Tags:Rorty, Neo-pragmatism, Literature theories
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