Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Literary Elements

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Literary Elements

Genre

Philosophical book

Setting and Context

The book's setting is in the 1970s written in the context of perception and reality.

Narrator and Point of View

First-person narrative

Tone and Mood

The tone is inquisitive and the mood is enlightening

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist is Rorty.

Major Conflict

The conflict is that human beings are tempted to believe that they perceive the world sufficiently, which is not the case in reality.

Climax

The climax is when the text agrees that individuals should consider the contemporary sense for what it is 'palpable and normal.'

Foreshadowing

The limitation of human consciousness foreshadows his wrong perception of reality and objectivity.

Understatement

Objectivity and truth are understated. Truth and objectivity are not all about perception but facts.

Allusions

The book alludes to philosophical archetype swings that have destabilized universally held viewpoints.

Imagery

The author uses sight imagery to enhance reader engagement. For instance, the author writes, "If we have a Heideggerian conception of philosophy, we will see the attempt to make the nature of the knowing subject a source of necessary truths as one more self-deceptive attempt to substitute a "technical" and determinate question for that openness to strangeness which initially tempted us to begin thinking.

Paradox

The satire of featherless bipeds is the perfect example of the satire used by the author. For instance, the author says that these bipeds built bombs, wrote poems, and developed computer programs. The paradox is that these bipeds never knew that they had brains!

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The phrase ‘philosophical paradigm’ refers to the changes that have disturbed the commonly held cultural beliefs.

Personification

N/A

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