Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism : With Responses by Richard Rorty

by Huang, Yong

• ISBN13: 9780791476833
• ISBN10: 0791476839
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780791477199
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-25
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Rorty and Confucianism: An Introduction	p. 1
Relativity, Contingency, and Moral Progress
Rorty, Confucius, and Intercultural Relativism	p. 21
On Three Contingencies in Richard Rorty: A Confucian Critique	p. 45
Rorty's Progress into Confucian Truths	p. 73
Morality and Human Nature
A Comparative Examination of Rorty's and Mencius's Theories of Human Nature	p. 101
Rorty and Mencius on Family, Nature, and Morality	p. 117
Rorty Meets Confucius: A Dialogue Across Millenia	p. 129
Postmodernism: Community, Literature, and Value
A Confucian Response to Rorty's Postmodern Bourgeois Liberal Idea of Community	p. 161
Philosophy and Literature: Rorty and Confucianism	p. 181
Coping with Incommensurable Pursuits: Rorty, Berlin, and the Confucian-Daoist Complementarity	p. 195
The "Other": Nature, Reality, and Transcendence
Rortian Extremes and the Confucian Zhongyong	p. 213
Tradition and Transcendence in Masters Kong and Rorty	p. 227
Becoming Practically Religious: A Deweyan and Confucian Context for Rortian Religiousness	p. 255
Responses
Responses to Critics	p. 279
Glossary	p. 301
Contributors	p. 309
Index	p. 313
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