Rorty & Geuss : sans fondements, mais jamais sans politique

Rorty : finir avec la chasse aux Fondements, assumer des vocabulaires contingents et se concentrer sur ce que nos descriptions nous permettent de faire. Geuss : refuser la moraline abstraite, ramener chaque théorie à ses usages politiques concrets et à ceux qu’elle avantage. Ensemble, ils donnent un ton : pas de métaphysique consolante, pas de philosophie hors pouvoir. #Rorty #Geuss

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/rorty-geuss-sans-fondements-mais-jamais-sans-politique/

Rorty & Geuss : sans fondements, mais jamais sans politique

Rorty : finir avec la chasse aux Fondements, assumer des vocabulaires contingents et se concentrer sur ce que nos descriptions nous permettent de faire. Geuss : refuser la moraline abstraite, ramen…

Homo Hortus
such as, precisely, their ability to bring together large groups of people over more than one generation around constellations of relatively abstract concepts and ideas—it is possible to treat them as similar.' ~ #Geuss 2/2
It is sometimes thought and argued (a.o. by Noam #Chomsky, Raymond #Geuss, and Roger #Scruton), that #architecture is inherently #political. Saul Fisher argues otherwise in his contribution to #AesthInv20231. On the basis that not all built structures serve political ends, and moreover that built structures are not all there is to architecture, Fisher makes the case that architecture is only sometimes, and then only contingently, political
https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/12162
Architecture, Buildings, and Political Ends | Aesthetic Investigations

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