Abstrakt: | Richard Rorty, one of the most controversial and, at the same time, most important philosophersof postmodernism, refers in his works to the most important thinking threads of Romanticismmany a time. What he considers particularly significant for the culture of the West isthe emphasis the Romantics put on the issue of self-creation of an individual, and a creative attitudeto the language, as well as philosophy openness to the issue of world unrecognizability anda linguistic nature of many “truths”. In Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, Rorty outlines a visionof the culture created by ironists-intellectuals making themselves aware of the passing nature ofthe language, world and individual self. In this theory one can notice a series of analogies to theconception of Friedrich Schlegl’s conception of Romantic irony, the most important of which isaccentuating a creative power of language, the possibility of self-creation, as well as particularfunctions of literature and philosophy in the culture, and the issue of a critical distance to sociallyestablished ideas. |