After graduating from The New School for Social Research, I had taught philosophy at colleges around NJ and NY areas for 6 years. Right now, I am living in Tokyo, Japan. My philosophical interests include American Pragmatism, postmodernism, French contemporary philosophy, philosophy of popular cultures, existentialism, and Japanese literature. Supervisors: Richard Bernstein
Richard Rorty’s project of discarding philosophy as a whole suffers a contradictory, self-defeati... more Richard Rorty’s project of discarding philosophy as a whole suffers a contradictory, self-defeating problem that I call philosophical exorcism. Since Rorty’s understanding of radicality is misleading, when he criticizes philosophy in its entirety, his criticism returns to itself so that his project itself is to be discarded. As a remedy for the exorcism, a different radicality, found in Dewey’s concept of quality, is examined through two films directed by John Cassavetes and David Lynch. The radicality at stake contains a paradox of sharing the unsharable, which distances philosophy from Rorty’s self-defeating pragmatism.
Richard Rorty's project of discarding philosophy as a whole suffers a contradictory, self-defeati... more Richard Rorty's project of discarding philosophy as a whole suffers a contradictory, self-defeating problem that I call philosophical exorcism. Since Rorty's understanding of radicality is misleading , when he criticizes philosophy in its entirety, his criticism returns to itself so that his project itself is to be discarded. As a remedy for the exorcism, a different radicality, found in Dewey's concept of quality, is examined through two films directed by John Cassavetes and Da-vid Lynch. The radicality at stake contains a paradox of sharing the unsharable, which distances philosophy from Rorty's self-defeating pragmatism.
Richard Rorty’s project of discarding philosophy as a whole suffers a contradictory, self-defeati... more Richard Rorty’s project of discarding philosophy as a whole suffers a contradictory, self-defeating problem that I call philosophical exorcism. Since Rorty’s understanding of radicality is misleading, when he criticizes philosophy in its entirety, his criticism returns to itself so that his project itself is to be discarded. As a remedy for the exorcism, a different radicality, found in Dewey’s concept of quality, is examined through two films directed by John Cassavetes and David Lynch. The radicality at stake contains a paradox of sharing the unsharable, which distances philosophy from Rorty’s self-defeating pragmatism.
Richard Rorty's project of discarding philosophy as a whole suffers a contradictory, self-defeati... more Richard Rorty's project of discarding philosophy as a whole suffers a contradictory, self-defeating problem that I call philosophical exorcism. Since Rorty's understanding of radicality is misleading , when he criticizes philosophy in its entirety, his criticism returns to itself so that his project itself is to be discarded. As a remedy for the exorcism, a different radicality, found in Dewey's concept of quality, is examined through two films directed by John Cassavetes and Da-vid Lynch. The radicality at stake contains a paradox of sharing the unsharable, which distances philosophy from Rorty's self-defeating pragmatism.
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