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Book SynopsisFor better or worse, Rorty has shaped the trajectory of academic philosophy. A decade after his passing, his legacy is ever present, especially in context of the growth of the far right, the struggle over the meaning of justice and equity, and the ecological crises we face. Edited by Randall Auxier, Eli Kramer, and Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski, Rorty and Beyond brings together leading international philosophers from the United States and Europe to reevaluate Rorty's legacy and explore what lies beyond his life and work. This collection covers a diverse territory, exploring Rorty's legacy regarding theories of truth, accounts of nature and naturalism, the historical situation of professional philosophy, the private and public aspects of religion, the place of literature in cultural politics, and points beyond Rorty, such as what we may hope for after his critical attack on certainty and ultimacy. Scholars, specialists, and those new to Rorty will all find insight, useful criticism, and ed
Table of ContentsContents Preface Randall Auxier Introduction: Richard Rorty as a Transitional Genre Eli Kramer Part 1: Take Care of the Future and the Past Will Take Care of Itself 1. “Bad Boy of Philosophy”: Richard Rorty, Provocateur Crispin Sartwell 2. “Nine Chances Out of Ten that Things Will Go to Hell”: Rorty on Orwell, Silko, and Narratives of the Dark Future Wojciech Małecki 3. Only a God Can Save Us: Richard Rorty’s Philosophy of Social Hope Beyond Secularism Roman Madzia Part 2: Method and Madness 4. Naturalistic Axiology and Normativity in Rorty Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński 5. The Tenuous Harmony of Imagination, Vision, and Critique Brendan Hogan 6. Abandoning Truth is Not a Solution: A Discussion with Richard Rorty Marcin Kilanowski Part 3: Democracy and Its Discontents 7. —Not NeoPragmatism but Critical Pragmatism: There Are Times When the Private Must Become Public Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley 8. The Problem of Ethnocentrism: An Attempt to Save Rorty’s Pragmatism from Itself John Ryder 9. We Liberal, Ironic Hypocrites: Situating Rorty in the History of American Democratic Thought Kenneth W. Stikkers 10. Solidarity, Imagination, and Richard Rorty’s Unfulfilled Democratic Possibilities: A Deweyan Reconstruction Justin Bell Part 4: Nature, Knowing, and Naturalisms 11. Vocabularies and the Life-World: A Criticism of Rorty’s Naturalism Roberto Gronda 12. The Solomonic Strategy: The Brain as Hardware, Culture as Software: Re-reading Rorty’s Criticism of Cognitive Science Maja Niestrój Part 5: Representations and Other Mirrors 13. Why We Should Move from Rorty to “Rortwey” Radim Šíp 14. Reconsidering Rorty’s Theory of Vocabularies: On the Role and Scope of Persuasion in a Post-Representationalist Culture Miklós Nyírő 15. The Lamp of Reason and the Mirror of Nature Preston Stovall Part 6: Logic, Truth, and Progress 16. Logic Beyond the Looking Glass David Beisecker 17. Reality is More Practical than Truth: Rorty on Truth vs. Justification John Shook 18. Ironic Wrongdoing and the Arc of the Universe Randall Auxier Index About the Editors About the Contributors
