The Return of the Unfashionable Gods

Aug 8th 2025 6:25am EDT

The American philosopher Richard Rorty argued that literature, not academic treatises, affords a truer insight into an understanding of the human condition. While professors are busy strangling everything with jargon and footnotes, novels and poems are out there doing the real work: showing us what it actually feels like to be alive. In Contingency, Irony […]

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