Titlebook: Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism; Tracy Llanera Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licens

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The Nihilisms of Our Time,The final chapter summarizes how Rorty’s pragmatism helps to show how the malaise of nihilism can be outgrown in modernity. It also discusses the implications and limits of this reading and suggests other avenues for reflecting about our modern spiritual life.

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Tracy LlaneraMakes a new contribution to the philosophical debate on nihilism..Challenges the dominant claim by various philosophers that nihilism is a problem to overcome..Argues that nihilism is a problem to be

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The Great Debate,es of this debate—adopt the “overcoming” strategy against the malaise of nihilism. They argue that human culture could be redeemed from nihilism with the help of the sacred or a non-human power. The use of this strategy has resulted in an impasse in the discussion. I introduce Richard Rorty as a par

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Overcoming Nihilism,igures. Their philosophy grounds the set of conceptual assumptions about modernity, religion, and secularism that Taylor, Dreyfus, and Kelly share, leading them to frame nihilism as a problem to overcome through the power of the sacred. In contrast, Rorty rejects this view. He instead develops a cur

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Averting Nihilism,modern problem. My critical reconstruction of Rorty’s work shows that his redemptive antidote to egotism is self-enlargement, a process that involves cultivating the values of self-creation and solidarity. I then reveal the connection between egotism and nihilism: that prior to becoming nihilists, h

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Book 2020itings, it challenges the orthodox treatment of nihilism as a malaise that human beings must overcome.. .Instead, nihilism should be framed as a problem for human culture to outgrow through pragmatism..

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roblem to overcome..Argues that nihilism is a problem to be .The book makes a new contribution to the contemporary debates on nihilism and the sacred. Drawing on an original interpretation of Richard Rorty’s writings, it challenges the orthodox treatment of nihilism as a malaise that human beings mu