RORTY'S NEO-PRAGMATISM: RESHAPING HUMAN CONDITION WITH OUR THOUGHTS

Abstract

Of late, some philosophers have come out to condemn Rorty's Neo-pragmatism as a distortion of the central goals of classical pragmatism, a great disservice to the contemporary pragmatic campaign. A good example of such thinkers is James Kloppenberg, who in his article, Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? Labels Rorty's pragmatism as “…insufficiently pragmatic…”1. For him, Rorty's “liberal ironism encourages selfishness, cynicism, and resignation by undercutting efforts to confront the hard facts of poverty and greed”.