Filosofía y contingencia en Richard Rorty

Abstract

The   American   philosopher   Richard   Rorty   encourages   a

philosophy  of  contingency  as  a  means  of  accepting  a  world

without   essences.   Accordingly,   Philosophy   must   substitute

hope   for   knowledge   and   accept   we   live   in   a   complex,

multicultural   world   with   no   possibilities   of   finding

universal,   intercultural   values.   We   have   to   trust   in   that   the

future   will   be   better   than   the   past.   Therefore,   the   role   of

Philosophy   is   closer   to   Literature   than   to   Science.   The   new

posphilosophy  abandons  its  objective  of  being  a   solution  to

the   crisis   of   reason   but   it   tries   instead   to   supersede

Modernity   and   become      whatRorty   calls   the   neopragmatism.

This   implies   two   different   attitudes:   the   assumption   of

contingency  and  the  rebuilt  of  the  modern  moral  agent  as  a

liberal-­‐‑ironist   self.   For   Rorty,   the   pragmatism   means   the

final   stage   of   the   Enlightment   —thought   from   a   different

point   of   view,   as   the   result   of   two   traditions   of   modern

philosophy:  the  Romanticism  and    the    Analytic  Philosophy.