The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781032074894 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Susan Dieleman; David E. McClear; Paul Showler

Opis

This book demonstrates that Rorty offers a coherent ethical vision. Its chapters explore his emphasis on the importance of moral imagination, social relations, language, and literature as instrumental for ethical self-transformation as well as for strengthening social hope, which entails work toward a more inclusive and cosmopolitan world.

Spis treści

Introduction: Stretched Thin: Rorty’s Ethical Vision  1. Reading Rorty in Tehran  2. Self-Creation and Community  3. Richard Rorty, Ethnocentrism, and Moral Community  4. Rorty's Hope of Achieving a Global Civilization  5. Imagination as a Social Virtue  6. Can Trees Care?  7. Richard Rorty on the "Too Sane"  8. Scientific Method and Moral Virtue  9. Talking with the Better-Looking Animals  10. Rortyan Ethics  11. When is Desire Dangerous?  12. Speaking for Oneself  13. Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Death  14. The Importance of Words  15. The Ironic and Liberal Deficit in Rorty’s Irony