This article provides a semantic reading of Tracy Llanera's brilliant book Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism. Llanera is reframing the debate of how to react to the malaise of modern nihilism by proposing a change of metaphor: instead of trying to “overcome” nihilism, we should try to “outgrow” nihilism. This article invites Llanera to shed more light on her project with respect to the semantic categories of realism and representationalism, and with respect to the growing field of conceptual engineering. Can Llanera's project be fruitfully understood as engineering the concepts of “transcendence” and “redemption”? How much of the project hangs on the idea that language does not represent but is rather a tool that helps us fulfill our varying needs? How neat is the entanglement of semantic and existential meaning?

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超越表现主义：对特雷西·拉内拉的理查德·罗蒂的语义评论：超越现代虚无主义

本文提供了对特雷西·拉内拉（Tracy Llanera）的精彩著作《理查德·罗蒂：超越现代虚无主义》的语义解读。拉内拉通过提出一种隐喻的改变，重新构建了如何应对现代虚无主义的萎靡不振的争论：我们不应该试图“克服”虚无主义，而应该努力“超越”虚无主义。本文邀请拉内拉进一步阐述她的项目，涉及现实主义和表征主义的语义类别，以及不断发展的概念工程领域。Llanera 的项目能否被有效地理解为对“超越”和“救赎”概念的设计？该项目有多少内容是基于这样的理念：语言并不代表语言，而是帮助我们满足不同需求的工具？语义和存在意义的纠缠有多巧妙？