RICHARD RORTY READER OF RAWLS:

A THEORY OF JUSTICE FROM A POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE

Authors

  • Daniel Luis Cidade Gonçalves Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v12i2.59376

Keywords:

justice, postmodernity, John Rawls, Richard Rorty

Abstract

Philosophical heir of Kantian contractualism, analytical philosopher and committed to the traditional task of providing fundamentals, advice and even a system that puts us in the safe direction about the deliberations on the concept of justice, John Rawls is a philosopher who fits in with molds of the traditional philosophy, produced in the academic world. Even though, like Rawls, Richard Rorty has built a career in renowned traditional universities, he opted for a somewhat iconoclastic bias, not only criticizing all Western metaphysics, but modernity itself. Would it be possible to reconcile both thoughts and read Rawls' masterpiece - A theory of justice - from a postmodern perspective? This article aims to investigate this possibility.

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Author Biography

Daniel Luis Cidade Gonçalves, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Bacharel e licenciado em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, mestre e doutor em Filosofia Política e Ética pela mesma instituição.

Professor substituto da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC).

References

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RAWLS, John. Justiça como equidade: uma reformulação. Tradução de Cláudia Berliner. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2003.

RAWLS, John. Uma teoria da Justiça. 4. ed. Tradução de Jussara Simões. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2016.

RORTY, Richard. Objetivismo, relativismo e verdade: Escritos filosóficos I. Tradução de Marco Antônio Casanova. Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 2002.

RORTY, Richard. Contingência, ironia e solidariedade. Tradução de Vera Ribeiro. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2007.

STANLEY, Jason. Como funciona o fascismo: a política do “nós” e “eles”. 2. ed. Tradução de Bruno Alexander. Porto Alegre: L&PM, 2019.

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Published

2021-12-23

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2021)

Section

Papers

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