Invia questo articolo per email Richard Rorty e il nazionalismo: il testo come bandiera per la Pax Americana
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Richard Rorty è uno dei pochi pensatori di lingua inglese che i sostenitori del postmodernismo sentono di poter citare al fianco di icone come Foucault, Derrida e Baudrillard. La sua filosofia cattura l’umore del proprio tempo con la sua iconoclastia ironica e il suo rigetto di vecchie e perentorie certezze. Essa contiene tuttavia anche tematiche egemoniche: tramite un’attenta lettura dei testi di Rorty, l’articolo mette in evidenza il continuo ricorso di Rorty a una sintassi dell’egemonia e la sua implicita assunzione del punto di vista degli Stati Uniti, individuando nel loro schema filosofico il nazionalismo della Pax Americana. Questo nazionalismo, a differenza di altre forme precedenti, non parla a nome della nazione con una gretta ferocia, e trae invece la forza morale per guidare le altre nazioni dalla propria autoproclamata ragionevolezza, mentre le sue ambizioni globali sono presentate come la voce della tolleranza, persino del dubbio.
Nationalism and Richard Rorty: The Text as a Flag for Pax Americana
Abstract: Richard Rorty is one of the few English- language thinkers whom defenders of postmodernism feel able to cite alongside the icons of Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. His philosophy captures the mood of its times with its ironic iconoclasm and its rejection of old strident certainties. Yet, it also contains hegemonic themes: through a close reading of Rorty’s texts, the article highlights Rorty’s continual use of a syntax of hegemony and his implicit assumption of the American perspective, thus identifying in these texts the philosophical outline of Pax Americana. This nationalism, unlike some older forms, does not speak with narrow ferocity for the nation. Instead, it draws its moral force to lead the nations from its own proclaimed reasonableness, while its global ambitions are to be presented as the voice of tolerance, even doubt.
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