Philosophy and Poetry – Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: Some Remarks on Richard Rorty’s Heidegger Interpretation

There are perhaps few thinkers in the whole history of Western philosophy who prioritised the relation between philosophy, literature, and poetry the way Martin Heidegger did. Among the contemporary philosophers who paid close attention to Heidegger’s conception one must mention Richard Rorty, who placed him within the context of the more general tendency to level off genre distinction between philosophy and all other kinds of writing. In this paper, my aim is to point out some positive and negative aspects of Rorty’s interesting, original, but not at all unproblematic, interpretation of Heidegger.