A Companion to Rorty

ISBN-13: 9781118972168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 560 str.

Alan R. Malachowski

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments viiiContributors ixIntroduction: Rorty's Approach to Philosophy: Time for Reassessment 1Alan MalachowskiPrologue 91 Reading Rorty: A Sketch of a Plan 11Danielle MacbethPart I Early Developments 252 Was Rorty an Eliminative Materialist? 27William Ramsey3 Rorty's Philosophy of Consciousness 43James Tartaglia4 Rorty and Transcendental Arguments 59Neil GascoignePart II Texts 795 Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature 81James Tartaglia6 The Uses of Philosophy after the Collapse of Metaphysics: Ironism and Liberalism in Rorty's Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity 100Colin Koopman7 Rhetoric Between Philosophy and Poetry: Rorty as Essayist 119William M. Curtis8 Rorty's Inspirational Liberalism 135Richard J. BernsteinPart III Themes 1479 Are Pragmatists About Truth True Democrats? 149Pascal Engel10 Richard Rorty and (the End of) Metaphysics (?) 163David Macarthur11 Rorty, Pragmatism, and Ethics: The Value of Hope 178Marjorie C. Miller12 The Center and Circumference of Knowledge: Rorty on Pragmatism and Romanticism 194Isaac Nevo13 Rorty and Analytic Philosophy 211Gary Gutting14 Speculative Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Hyperboles of Philosophy 229Paul TrembathPart IV Appropriations 25115 Rorty on Hegel on the Mind in History 253Paul Redding16 Rorty and the Mirror of Nietzsche 268Steven Michels17 The Truth of Being and the History of Philosophy 281Mark Okrent18 Rorty's Romantic Polytheism: The Influence of William James 297Carol Nicholson19 Inconvenient Conversational Partners: Rorty and Freud 312Alan Malachowski20 Rorty and Dewey 335David L. Hildebrand21 Common Understanding Without Uncommon Certainty: Rorty's Wittgenstein Revisited 357Alan Malachowski22 Rorty, Davidson, and Representation 370Steven Levine23 The Rorty-Habermas Debate: A Critical Appraisal 395Anton A. van NiekerkPart V Culture, Politics, and Religion 41124 Rorty and Literature 413Serge Grigoriev25 The Contested Marriage of Rorty and Feminism 427Elizabeth Sperry26 Rorty and Religion: Beyond the Culture Wars? 444Molly B. Farneth27 Rorty's Philosophy of Religion 456Emil Visnovsk?28 Rorty and the Intellectual Culture of Central Europe 467Emil Visnovsk?, Alexander Krémer, and Krzysztof Piotr SkowroDski29 Rorty and Nihilism 482Tracy Llanera30 Rorty's Ethics of Responsibility 490Christopher J. VoparilPart VI Coda 50531 Poetry as (a Kind of) Philosophy: For Richard Rorty 507Christopher NorrisInternet Resources 528Index 529

O autorze

Alan Malachowski is Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Ethics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has published extensively on both Richard Rorty and Pragmatism and has authored and edited many volumes, including Reading Rorty (Blackwell, 1990).