Richard Rorty: Pragmatism, Solidarity, Poetry

Abstract

In “Richard Rorty: Pragmatism, solidarity, Poetry”, Rorty’s arguments for human life betterment, as well as the claims of the American philosopher facing dualisms that became an obstacle for human solidarity, are highlighted. Reviewing Rorty’s arguments, concepts of contingency, pragmatism, and solidarity offered in the book with the same title are explored. La filosofía y el espejo de la naturaleza, Philosophy and Social Hope and Consecuencias del pragmatismo, also Rorty’s books, are likewise considered in this essay. Finally, It attends the path that conduces Rorty to propose Poetry as an answer for living a solidary life: a different and better answer than essential truth, Rorty holds.