The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-34217-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy

This book features fourteen original essays that critically engage the philosophy of Richard Rorty, with an emphasis on his ethics, epistemology, and politics. Inspired by James’ and Dewey’s pragmatism, Rorty urged us to rethink the role of science and truth with a liberal-democratic vision of politics. In doing so, he criticized philosophy as a sheer scholastic endeavor and put it back in touch with our most pressing cultural and human needs. The essays in this volume employ the conceptual tools and argumentative techniques of analytic philosophy and pragmatism and demonstrate the relevance of Rorty’s thought to the most urgent questions of our time. They touch on a number of topics, including but not limited to structural injustice, rule-following, Black feminist philosophy, legal pragmatism, moral progress, relativism, and skepticism. This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across disciplines who are engaging with the work of Richard Rorty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marchetti, Giancarlo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Philosophy of Richard Rorty

Giancarlo Marchetti

Part I: Ethics

1 Rorty as Liberal Ironist Peace Warrior

Sharyn Clough

2 The Rorty-Dworkin Debate

Raff Donelson

3 Bildung, Unimportance, and Moral Progress

Sarin Marchetti

4 Philosophy, Literature, Politics: The Cases of Rorty and Collingwood

Sabina Lovibond

Part II: Epistemology

5 What Should Rorty Say About Relativism?

Carol Rovane

6 Rorty’s reconstruction of epistemology

Rosa M. Calcaterra

7 Rorty and Experience

Chris Voparil

8 Richard Rorty, Rocks, and Realism

Mariane Janack

9 Disepistemology

Barry Allen

Part III: Politics

10 Rorty, Habermas, and radical social criticism

Michael Bacon and Nat Rutherford

11 Thinking with Rorty about How to Make Philosophy More Livable

Susan Dieleman

12 Poetic Justice?: Rorty’s Jurisprudence

William M. Curtis

13 Pragmatism and the Mirror of Law

Douglas Lind

14 Achieving Whose Country? Rorty and Baldwin on the United States

Shannon Sullivan

Über Autor(innen)

Giancarlo Marchetti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Perugia, Italy. He is the author of Il neo-pragmatismo (1999) and Verità e valori. Tra pragmatismo e filosofia analitica (2008), and co-editor of Il Pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei (2015) and Facts and Values: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Normativity (Routledge, 2017).