This book's fifth chapter cites a then-recent work by Alexander Nehamas to help explain that "what one is" means "whom one turned oneself into in the course of creating the taste by which one ended up judging oneself.
This book's fifth chapter cites a then-recent work by Alexander Nehamas to help explain that "what one is" means "whom one turned oneself into in the course of creating the taste by which one ended up judging oneself." This book defines a descriptive language which, if questioned, leaves its user with no non-circular recourse, which it calls a "final vocabulary," and claims that in writing "Envois," Derrida did for the history of philosophy what Proust did for himself. Its final section is dedicated to discussions of books about cruelty and includes a chapter about Nabokov titled "The Barber of Kasbeam." Offering Heidegger and Nietzsche as philosophical examples of one title attitude, this work argues that both selfhood and language are historically determined and that the third title concept consists of extending "our sense of 'we' to people whom we have previously thought of as 'they.'" For 10 points, identify this philosophical work by Richard Rorty.
This book's fifth chapter cites a then-recent work by Alexander Nehamas to help explain that "what one is" means "whom one turned oneself into in the course of creating the taste by which one ended up judging oneself.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity