The Narrative Ethics In Richrad Rorty's Poeticized Culture

In Contingency,Irony,and Solidarity,Richrad Rorty proposed the concept of Poeticized Culture.Literature has displaced religion and philosophy as our hope of salvation.We no longer need to long for God or Truth,and turn to literary reading to extend the boundary of the imagination.For each member of the culture,he gives up universal essence and then pursues the shadow of future.The novel and the TV program have gradually but steadily replaced the sermon and the treatise as the principal vehicles of moral progress.Imagination has become the only power of redemption,thus being the foothold in Poeticized Culture.Because of this,Rorty claimed we might turn against theory and toward narrative in the liberal utopia.Such a turn would be emblematic of our having given up the attempt to hold all the sides of our life in a single vision,so creative insight has overcome rational proof.On this basis,Rorty's Narrative Ethics has two meanings.According to the division of the public and private spheres,starting from the ethical level,Narrative Ethics appear as personality self-improvement in private sphere and present as basis of social justice in public sphere;starting from the narrative level,Narrative Ethics is reflected as a kind of Novel Ethics,since the novel is a power weapon for criticizing metaphysical,which would promote self-enlightenment and human solidarity.Rorty's Narrative Ethics is produced from the context of postmodern,thus becoming inevitable outcome in his view of new-pragmatism.Through setting up the post-metaphysical culture,Rorty has offered a new angle of view to reflect on the relationship between individual,society and morality for us.