Download or read book Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism written by Tracy Llanera and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book makes a new contribution to the contemporary debates on nihilism and the sacred. Drawing on an original interpretation of Richard Rorty’s writings, it challenges the orthodox treatment of nihilism as a malaise that human beings must overcome. Instead, nihilism should be framed as a problem for human culture to outgrow through pragmatism.