Literary metaphors and the hope of social renewal
a relationship between language and imagination from Richard Rorty's neopragmatism
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Literary Metaphors, Neopragmatism, RortyAbstract
This work discusses some aspects of literary metaphors in Richard Rorty’s philosophy. This is a bibliographical investigation focused on some specific moments of Rorty’s philosophical production, specifically, in the works Contingency, irony and solidarity (2007) and Essays on Heidegger et al. (1999a). Works and articles by interpreters who address topics of ethics, political philosophy and social philosophy in Rorty’s thinking were consulted as supporting literature, such as Malachowski (2002) and Schulenberg (2015). In this context, Rorty proposes a practical use for literary metaphors as an element that promotes individual and social changes, as they suggest, through imagination, alternative ethical, political and social scenarios, in addition to inspiring specific redescriptive changes for the descriptions of individuals and your community.References
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