Rorty on Hermeneutical Injustice, Liberal Redescription and Utopian Imagination

FEDERICO PENELAS

Endoxa

Universidad Educación a Distancia

Año: 2019 p. 313 - 333

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My purposeis to use Miranda Fricker´s concepts of "testimonial injustice" and "hermeneutical injustice" to draw a distinction between the policy of tolerance and the policy of solidarity in Rortyan liberalism.  Ishall focus on the policy of solidarity interpreted as unfolding in two phasesof the imagination: the phase of critical imagination and that of utopian imagination. I advocate that critical imagination may be understood as focusingon overcoming hermeneutical injustice through what I term liberal redescription.  Lastly, Icritique the Rortyan project on what I view as an inadequate inclination to restrict critical imagination on the basis of adopting a criterion that focuses on flaws in the development of utopian imagination and that collides with the pretense of overcoming hermeneutical injustice.