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Pill Pod 98 - Ricky Rorty: Derrida vs. Habermas

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Rorty's the Private Kind of Function Is Where the Private Is

The private is somewhat analogous to aesthetic artistic creation poetic language. Rorty takes this idea of metaphor from Davidson and metaphors at first are a surprising creative thing that you can't really argue about them but once they become a little bit solidified then they become literalized over time. Darida doesn't need to make any claims in argumentative sense because darida's theory is not a view of the nature of language, says Taylor.

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