Rorty and Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Auxier, Randall; Skowronski, Krzysztof Piotr; Kramer, Eli

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For 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 edification in this volume.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739195093
• Artikelnr.: 58406597

Autorenporträt

Randall Auxier is professor of philosophy and communication studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Eli Kramer is an affiliated researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowronski, teaches contemporary philosophy, rhetoric and persuasion, and multiculturalism at the University of Opole.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
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 Malecki
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 Skowronski
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 Ry