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Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Despite the obvious French origin of poststructuralism, its paradigmatic resonance can be found in the American philosophical scene, an essential part of which is Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism -- the theoretical basis of American (post)modernism. However, different from poststructuralism's apparent antagonism to the authoritarian establishments, Rorty adopts the Derridean poststructuralist motifs of the decentering of the subject, and the disappearance of meaning and truth in order to defend the establishment -- or rather, the status quo.
Repository Citation
Eid, Haidar. "Rorty's Complicit American Neo-Pragmatism." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 4, 2002, pp. 1–16. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss4/2
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