Filosofia sem fundamentos: uma leitura de Richard Rorty

Abstract

This research is a reading on the meaning and the objective of the critiques and propositions made by the North American philosopher Richard Rorty (1931-2007) about Philosophy. Rorty, who was a post-analytical philosopher, recombines different styles and school of thoughts by rewriting them with the primary goal of expanding the field of understanding. This way, philosophy should abandon the fundamental search. Instead, philosophy should be an area of well engaged and well informed knowledge, where the role for a philosopher should be one of a mediator in the public debate and where the search for knowledge could be replaced with hope.