Richard Rorty e as estratégias redescritivas

Abstract

The theme of our reflection is redescription, a concept used by the neopragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty. The problem wwe seek to investigate is howw redescription strategies occur and our general objective is to showw how redescription can be used to recreate ne descriptions about nature, society and man. Specifically, we aim to evaluate how philosophical hermeneutics can offer us new strategies for understanding these phenomena. We will also use the concept of paradigm incommensurability, formulated by the philosopher and historian of science Thomas Kuhn to understand redescription strategies that occurend in the history of science and we will seek to extend them from the history of philosophy and culture. Is this sense, we will seek to develop the idea according to which it is possible to understand that cultures are created without substanting their descriptions through concepts such as substances and essences, concepts that are dear to metaphysics. From this point, we can exemplify that there are not exactly essences to be more ande more grasped in the epistemological process, but Only different descriptions and their relationships. With this, we cam defend that philosophy and other sciences can base their investigations, rather, on a form of inquiry based on conversation in the Socratic mode, than on an investigation based on theory of knowledge. This investigation is guided by the wworks of Richard Rorty and his qualified commentators. Our intention is, above all, to understand howw this concept os redescription can act in the development of a culture devoid of any philosophical essentialism. This, in turn, could then be considered as fundation of arbitrary conceptions and totalitarian societies. Redescription, on the other hand, could only be successful in cosieties where democratic and solidarity values prevail. By noting the strategy of fundation through the search for essences instead of conversation through the sharing of redescriptions, the defense of the conception according to which a democratic society finds justification in historical, adaptable and sophistical knowledge, as opposed to supposed definitive descriptions, is explaned, inflexible and of metaphysical origin.