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9780745621661

Richard Rorty Critical Dialogues

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  • ISBN13:

    9780745621661

  • ISBN10:

    074562166X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-11-28
  • Publisher: Polity

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Summary

Richard Rorty is one of the most influential and provocative figures in contemporary intellectual life. He argues that many of philosophy's traditional concerns are redundant, and that the goal of inquiry should not be truth but human betterment. In this collection a distinguished team of scholars grapple with the implications of his writings for social and political thought. Avoiding mindless adulation or ritual denunciation, they offer careful but critical investigations of the meaning of Rorty's work for a range of important issues. Topics explored include anti-foundationalism; irony and commitment; justice; liberalism and utopianism; reason and aesthetics; humanism and anti-humanism; the Holocaust; the theory of international relations; social democracy and the pragmatist tradition. Each essay is followed by a reply written for this volume by Rorty. The volume also includes a substantial essay by Rorty on Justice as a larger Loyalty. This volume is indispensable for any reader interested in Rorty's work, or in contemporary debates in social, political or ethical theory. Contributors: Molly Cochran; Daniel Conway; Matthew Festenstein; Norman Geras; John Horton; David Owen; Richard Rorty; Kate Soper; Simon Thompson.

Author Biography

Matthew Festenstein isLecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield and Simon Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of the West of England

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Richard Rorty: Pragmatism, Irony and Liberalism
Irony and Commitment: An Irreconcilable Dualism of Modernity
Reply
Richard Rorty on Truth, Justification, and Justice
Reply
Irony, State and Utopia
Reply
The Avoidance of Cruelty
Reply
Richard Rorty: Humanist and/or Anti-Humanist?
Reply
Reason and Aesthetics Between Modernity and Postmodernity
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Progress Without Foundations?
Reply
Rorty's Neo-Pragmatism: Some Implications for International Relations Theory
Reply
Pragmatism, Social Democracy, and Political Argument
Reply
Justice as a Larger Loyalty
Index
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