From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 00:14:19 GMT
Sam,
Matt said:
As a side note, I follow Rorty in thinking that the Enlightenment had two
distinct projects. One was the liberal political project which is still
the best option we have. The other is the modern philosophical project
which, as far as I'm concerned, is dead.
Sam asked:
At the risk of repetition, where does Rorty say this?
Matt:
Ah, well, all over I guess. The most succinct place he says this is in a
pamphlet of his Spinoza lectures entitled Truth, Politics, and
"Post-Modernism" (the lecture in question being "Is 'post-modernism'
relevant to politics?"), which I recommend to anyone who can get their
hands on it, but its not widely available if you wanted to read
it. Otherwise, as I alluded to before, Rorty hints at the distinctness in
projects in most of his writings that touch on philosophical truth and
politics. His distinction between two Enlightenment projects basically
comes out of his private/public distinction, and the best source for that
is Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Ch 3 and Ch 4, "The Contingency of
Community" and "Private Irony and Liberal Hope" respectively, talk in
particular about how the private and public spheres interact.
Sorry I can't really point at a widely available essay at the moment, but
they've kinda' all strung together now and I don't have time to hunt one
down. I hope this helps.
Matt
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