Post-philosophical culture

Author: (American) Richard Rorty
Translator: Huang Yong
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book aims to draw some conclusions from the pragmatic theory of truth. Pragmatism holds that we cannot expect a philosophically significant theory of truth. For pragmatism, the term "truth" refers to a property shared by all true statements. After Philosophy is carefully selected and compiled by the author and translator, reflecting the author's intellectual evolution since Philosophy and Natural Mirrors. It not only critiques the analytic philosophy movement but also critiques a philosophical tradition since Plato, which is interested in the representation of the absolute reality behind phenomena. The author advocates a new "post-philosophical culture," in which neither priests, physicists, poets, nor politicians are "more rational," "scientific," or "deeper" than others—those who stand out are simply those who are good at being human. At the same time, there is no discipline that can serve as a "model" for all other disciplines. If the Enlightenment brought us a post-theological culture, then transcending the Platonic tradition would lead to the birth of a post-philosophical culture.