From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 12:30:00 BST
David,
David said:
If we could all be ironists perhaps it could be good, but even I fancy some positive philosophy sometimes. You can only be ironic when we have some stories to be ironic about.
Matt:
Disenchantment isn't about being ironic, its about making the contingent turn (which is only one part of being ironic). Rorty doesn't think we can all be ironic all of the time because, like you say, we have to have stories to be ironic about. Rorty's not against "positive" philosophy (in the Sellarsian sense of seeing how things, in the widest sense, hang together, in the widest sense) or poetry or literature, he's against Platonic philosophy, scientism, metaphysico-epistemology, and the onto-theological tradition.
Matt
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