Neopragmatism and speculative realism
The article deals with neopragmatist themes of contingency, irony and solidarity in the context of the contemporary movement in continental philosophy, speculative realism. Despite the fact that many representatives of this trend have repeatedly spoken about Richard Rorty exclusively in a critica...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Omsk State Technical University, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность" |
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| Online Access: | https://www.omgtu.ru/general_information/media_omgtu/journal_of_omsk_research_journal/files/arhiv/2020/%D0%A2.%205,%20%E2%84%96%202%20(%D0%9E%D0%98%D0%A1)/129-136%20%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%20%D0%90.%20%D0%92..pdf |
| Summary: | The article deals with neopragmatist themes of contingency, irony and solidarity
in the context of the contemporary movement in continental philosophy,
speculative realism. Despite the fact that many representatives of this trend have
repeatedly spoken about Richard Rorty exclusively in a critical spirit, their critical
strategies, which aspire to overcome representationalism (Rorty) and correlationism
(speculative realism) in philosophy, intersect in many important respects. Thus, Rorty
and Meillassoux approach the concept of contingency that underlies their projects
in a similar vein. There is a parallelism between the contingency of language and its
constituent vocabularies in Rorty, on the one hand, and the contingency of world
in Meillassoux, on the other. From the point of view of both philosophers, there is
no all-encompassing entity, either within language («meta-vocabulary») or within
the world («universe of all universes»). At the same time, the realistic argument
based on the «ancestrality problem» (formulated by Meillassoux), which allows us
to make judgments about reality as a reality which pre-exists our judgments about
it without relying on some form of correlation/representation, is reproduced in
a neopragmatist context by Robert Brandom, the follower of Rorty. The texts of
speculative realists (Quentin Meillassoux, Graham Harman, Ian Bogost, Ray Brassier)
are then analyzed in terms of the concept of irony. At the end of the article the
social-philosophical and ethical implications of the projects of Rorty and Meillassoux
are considered. The similarity of the utopias built by Rorty and Meillassoux allows us
to conclude that Meillassoux’s project is very close in his spirit to liberal ideology |
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| ISSN: | 2542-0488 2541-7983 |