This stance is exemplified by statements like "Dasein as such is guilty," so that the answer to "What does Heidegger mean by the word 'Dasein'?" is "people like himself."
The book that originated this stance claims that Rudolph Gasché has completely missed the point of books like Glas by discarding them as potentially more "literarily playful" than philosophical. This stance is exemplified by statements like "Dasein as such is guilty," so that the answer to "What does Heidegger mean by the word 'Dasein'?" is "people like himself." The book that originated this stance claims that Habermas is dedicated to attacking it, but that in doing so he fails to realize the different and compatible values of public and private philosophy. This attitude puts its adherents in a Sartre-like "meta-stable" state, and is thus the opposite of the so-called "common sense" of "metaphysicians" like (*) Platonists. A person with this stance, like Proust, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida has continual doubts about their "final vocabulary," and thus exemplifies its originator's liberal attitude. For 10 points, name this attitude that springs from recognizing the contingency of one's beliefs, which is analyzed along with "solidarity" in a book by Richard Rorty.
The book that originated this stance claims that Rudolph Gasché has completely missed the point of books like Glas by discarding them as potentially more "literarily playful" than philosophical.
ironism [accept word forms like ironist, but prompt on just "irony"; prompt on "liberal" or word forms; prompt on "nominalist" or word forms] 