Can Rorty's ironist vocabulary be effectively redirected to conservative purposes?
The chunk of Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity concerning liberalism is without a doubt the weakest part. Rorty would be one of the great thinkers if his work was purged and appropriated for conservative politics.
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I think so, and I would cite the last few years as the idea in practice.
Tell me more. I'm interested in the use of appropriation as applied to evolution in right wing politics and philosophy as it is presently occurs.
Can you elaborate user? Conservatism is on the rise - thank God - but there seems to be a widespread false certainty about our core beliefs on the right with little recognition of contingency or room for doubt.
So what would you suggest as an exit plan I guess?
Yes it can OP.
>Conservatism is on the rise - thank God
Populism is on the rise. Burke would recoil in horror at the Republican Party's hard on for free trade, massive deficits, tribal politics and a lobotimized judiciary
>Populism is on the rise.
Yes indeed. I miss actual intelligent cultural conservatives. Am myself economically VERY left wing, but I have a lot of respect for the actually intelligent cultural right. Unfortunately reflection seems to be almost extinct on the right wing of today.
The conservative stance demands a cynical attitude that is orthogonal to the ironist, the kynic. Cynicism places one above the common fold, while irony equalizes absolutely.
But honestly that can be said for the left wing as well. I don't even need to mention the liberal centrist pieces of filth.