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Nihilism and Richard Rorty

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Difference between Nihilism and Richard Rorty

Nihilism vs. Richard Rorty

Nihilism is the philosophical viewpoint that suggests the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher.

Similarities between Nihilism and Richard Rorty

Nihilism and Richard Rorty have 11 things in common (in Unionpedia): Atheism, Epistemology, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gianni Vattimo, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, Jean-François Lyotard, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Philosophy, Postmodernism.

Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.

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Gianni Vattimo

Gianteresio Vattimo (born 4 January 1936) is an Italian philosopher and politician.

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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (born Jackie Élie Derrida;. See also. July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was a French Algerian-born philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology.

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Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

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Jean-François Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard (10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist.

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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics, and is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century." Heidegger is best known for his contributions to phenomenology and existentialism, though as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy cautions, "his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification".

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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), generally known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic.

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Philosophy

Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Nihilism and Richard Rorty Comparison

Nihilism has 171 relations, while Richard Rorty has 139. As they have in common 11, the Jaccard index is 3.55% = 11 / (171 + 139).

References

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