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About this book
An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty.
Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism offers a fascinating conversation between Confucianism, historically the dominant tradition in Chinese thought and society, and the contemporary philosophy of Richard Rorty. Well aware that his philosophical hero, John Dewey, has had a lasting influence among Chinese intellectuals, Rorty expressed a wish that his own books, which have been rapidly translated into Chinese, be read as an updated version of Dewey's philosophy. In this book, twelve authors engage Rorty's thought in a hermeneutic dialogue with Confucianism, using Confucianism to interpret and reconstruct Rorty while exploring such topics as human nature, moral psychology, moral relativism, moral progress, democracy, tradition, moral metaphysics, and religiosity. Rorty himself provides a detailed reply to each author.
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Table of contents
- Rorty, Pragmatism,and Confucianism
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Rorty and Confucianism: An Introduction
- PART I. Relativity, Contingency,and Moral Progress
- 2. Rorty, Confucius, and Intercultural Relativism
- 3. On Three Contingencies in Richard Rorty: A Confucian Critique
- 4. Rorty’s Progress into Confucian Truths
- PART I I. Morality and Human Nature
- 5. A Comparative Examination of Rorty’s and Mencius’s Theories of Human Nature
- 6. Rorty and Mencius on Family, Nature, and Morality
- 7. Rorty Meets Confucius: A Dialogue Across Millennia
- PART I I I. Postmodernism: Community, Literature, and Value
- 8. A Confucian Response to Rorty’s Postmodern Bourgeois Liberal Idea of Community
- 9. Philosophy and Literature: Rorty and Confucianism
- 10. Coping with Incommensurable Pursuits: Rorty, Berlin, and the Confucian-Daoist Complementarity
- PART IV. The “Other”: Nature, Reality, and Transcendence
- 11. Rortian Extremes and the Confucian Zhongyong
- 12. Tradition and Transcendence in Masters Kong and Rorty
- 13. Becoming Practically Religious: A Deweyan and Confucian Context for Rortian Religiousness
- PART V. Responses
- 14. Responses to Critics
- Glossary of Chinese Terms
- Contributors
- Index