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.[1] It is described as a modernist literary intellectual's project of fashioning the best possible self through continual redescription.[2] With this concept, Rorty argues for a contingency that rejects necessity and universality in relation to the ideas of language, self, and community.[3]
^Swartz, Omar (1997). Conducting Socially Responsible Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. p. 45. ISBN 0761904980.
^Fraser, Nancy (1989). Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 98. ISBN 0816617775.
^Huang, Yong (2009). Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism: With Responses by Richard Rorty. New York: State University of New York Press. p. 45. ISBN 9780791476833.
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