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Ironism
Ironism (n. ironist; from Greek: eiron, eironeia) is a term coined by Richard Rorty, for the concept that allows rhetorical scholars to actively participate in political practices. It is described as a modernist literary intellectual's project of fashioning the best possible self through continual redescription. With this concept, Rorty argues for a contingency that rejects necessity and universality in relation to the ideas of language, self, and community.
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Ironism
Ironist, a term coined by Richard Rorty, describes someone who fulfills three conditions: ⁕She has radical and continuing doubts about the final vocabulary she currently uses, because she has been impressed by other vocabularies, vocabularies taken as final by people or books she has encountered; ⁕She realizes that argument phrased in her present vocabulary can neither underwrite nor dissolve these doubts; ⁕Insofar as she philosophizes about her situation, she does not think that her vocabulary is closer to reality than others, that it is in touch with a power not herself. — Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, p.73 In Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Rorty argues that Proust, Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger, Derrida, and Nabokov, among others, all exemplify Ironism to different extents.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ironism in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ironism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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