Lexicon of Arguments

 

Rorty III 117
Metaphor/HabermasVsRorty: considers Rorty's aestheticizing speech of metaphor, concept renewal and self-discovery as an unfortunate fascination of the idea of the "world-developing function of language", which, in contrast to the "problem-solving" function of language steps into "inner-worldly practice".
>Language/Habermas, >Metaphor/Rorty, >R. Rorty, >Description/Rorty, >Explanation/Rorty.
Rorty III 118
Habermas/Kuhn/Rorty: Habermas is ready to accept from Kuhn that "the languages of science and technology, law and morality, economics and politics live on the luminosity of metaphorical speeches."
>Science/Th. Kuhn. >Th. Kuhn.
Rorty III 119
RortyVsHabermas: Habermas is more afraid of a 'romantic upheaval' like Hitler and Mao have shown it before than of a suffocating effect that the encrusted societies can have. He is more afraid of autonomy than what Foucault called the "bio-power" of the experts.
>Autonomy, >Biopolitics, >M. Foucault.
Rorty III 120
Rorty VsHabermas: I am very suspicious of the idea of a "universal validity" (metaphysics). This claim is no longer credible if one is convinced of the "contingency of language".
>Contingency, >Metaphysics, >Universalism, >Ultimate Justification.