Contingency, Irony, And Solidarity

Rorty believes that philosophy, as it stands, is inadequate in explaining human nature and his work attempts to fuse a philosophical perspective with literature... » 

Rorty believes that philosophy, as it stands, is inadequate in explaining human nature and his work attempts to fuse a philosophical perspective with literature. Novelists such as Orwell and Nabokov are discussed in detail to point out where philosophers have failed. «