ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that philosophy can contribute to social amelioration in various ways, and one of these ways is by paying special attention to the preconditions and assumptions of using narratives and descriptions to tell stories about social progress and crisis. These issues also concern the discussion about the economic crisis. Rorty, one of the most influential American philosophers today, developed a philosophy that pays special attention to the role of new narratives in the process of ameliorating social life in general; at the same time, he put these attempts into the framework of the democratic society and free market economy. Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy provides tools to explore the question of social importance, communal recognition, and public acceptance of the discourses claiming to depict the realizable arena of action. The processes of democratizing the modern world tend to favor differentiation and pluralization of people's decisions about their needs, pleasures, and pains.
