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 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