In this episode, I extend the thinking of of the American #postmodern #philosopher Richard Rorty (who is said to have brought the end of philosophy) to #spirituality.

With the rebellious badassery of anyone who brings change to an infrastructural or cultural edifice, the American #postmodern #philosopher Richard Rorty went so far as to deconstruct his own discipline, stripping #philosophy of its “whigishness”, and releasing it from the burden of determining morality, truth, or knowledge and reducing it to merely one of many ways of having a conversation.

Rorty’s approach devalues #truth and knowledge, relegating seemingly profound #existential concepts to nothing more than a lexicon that is peculiar to Western philosophy due mainly to the path that the discipline has followed over time. By taking this #hermeneutic turn (directing philosophy’s attention to the meaning of language rather than meaning at large), Rorty pokes at philosophy’s ego. Although, says Rorty, philosophy ought to continue its epistemological work, it can no longer be viewed as the almighty arbitrator of claims made by religion, politics, and science as it once was.

#postmodernism #poststructuralism #psychotherapy #yoga #rishikesh #postphilosophy #postspirituality #deconstruction #deconstructingchristianity