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Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism

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    Rorty, Pragmatism,and Confucianism
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    1. Rorty and Confucianism: An Introduction
    PART I. Relativity, Contingency,and Moral Progress
    2. Rorty, Confucius, and Intercultural Relativism
    3. On Three Contingencies in Richard Rorty: A Confucian Critique
    4. Rorty’s Progress into Confucian Truths
    PART I I. Morality and Human Nature
    5. A Comparative Examination of Rorty’s and Mencius’s Theories of Human Nature
    6. Rorty and Mencius on Family, Nature, and Morality
    7. Rorty Meets Confucius: A Dialogue Across Millennia
    PART I I I. Postmodernism: Community, Literature, and Value
    8. A Confucian Response to Rorty’s Postmodern Bourgeois Liberal Idea of Community
    9. Philosophy and Literature: Rorty and Confucianism
    10. Coping with Incommensurable Pursuits: Rorty, Berlin, and the Confucian-Daoist Complementarity
    PART IV. The “Other”: Nature, Reality, and Transcendence
    11. Rortian Extremes and the Confucian Zhongyong
    12. Tradition and Transcendence in Masters Kong and Rorty
    13. Becoming Practically Religious: A Deweyan and Confucian Context for Rortian Religiousness
    PART V. Responses
    14. Responses to Critics
    Glossary of Chinese Terms
    Contributors
 
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TitleRorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism
EditorYong Huang
PublisherSUNY Press
Publication Date5/4/09
SubjectAsian Religion and Philosophy, Asian Studies, Confucianism, Philosophy, Pragmatism, Religion
Pages335


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An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty.

Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism offers a fascinating conversation between Confucianism, historically the dominant tradition in Chinese thought and society, and the contemporary philosophy of Richard Rorty. Well aware that his philosophical hero, John Dewey, has had a lasting influence among Chinese intellectuals, Rorty expressed a wish that his own books, which have been rapidly translated into Chinese, be read as an updated version of Dewey's philosophy. In this book, twelve authors engage Rorty's thought in a hermeneutic dialogue with Confucianism, using Confucianism to interpret and reconstruct Rorty while exploring such topics as human nature, moral psychology, moral relativism, moral progress, democracy, tradition, moral metaphysics, and religiosity. Rorty himself provides a detailed reply to each author.

Contributors include Robert Allinson, Roger Ames, James Behuniak, Cheng Chungying, James Kelly Clark, Yong Huang, Chenyang Li, Marjorie Miller, Hans-Georg Moeller, Peimin Ni, Richard Rorty, Sor-hoon Tan, and Kuang-ming Wu.



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