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1420 Pages

Alan Malachowski University of East Anglia, Norwich

Hardcover 18-06-2002 ISBN: 9780761974642 £600.00

This is the first systematic assessment of the work of Richard Rorty - one of the most provocative and influential thinkerswriting today. It will be an essential reference for academics and students in philosophy, social theory, sociology, culturalstudies and literary theory.

Rorty's fertile writings have challenged not just the assumptions behind the relatively narrow analytic tradition he wasfirst trained in, but those concerning the very nature of social thought itself. The critical articles collected in these fourvolumes follow the trajectory of Rorty's whole career, from his early work in analytic philosophy to his later writings onpragmatism, continental philosophy, literature, culture, and liberal politics.

The collection is divided into four volumes:

- Philosophy: this volume looks at how Rorty's contribution to the analytic tradition was assessed by his peers at thetime and then examines how his later, more explicitly post-analytic, writings relate to traditional philosophical topics suchas `truth' and `realism'.

- Post-Analytic Pragmatism: Volume Two examines Rorty's `post-analytic pragmatism'. It begins by considering howRorty prepared for a shift into this territory, and then looks more closely at the kind of pragmatism he sought to establish;the volume contains discussions of the kind of pragmatism that emerges from both Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and Consequences of Pragmatism (1982).

- Politics, Irony and Solidarity provides an assessment of Rorty's account of irony and examines its relationship to hisliberal politics.

- Culture, Interpretation and Conversations: this final volume examines Rorty's views on philosophy as a form ofcultural conversation and discusses his interpretations or `appropriations' of other philosophers. Of special interest hereare his readings of continental philosophers such as Hegel, Heidegger and Derrida, where it is acknowledged that oneRorty's most important contributions to social thought has been to make the work of such philosophers more accessibleto readers unfamiliar with, or even hostile to, the continental tradition. Volume 4 concludes with a definitive bibliography,

which will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students.Edited by Alan Malachowski - a leading commentator on Rorty's work - this collection will be the standard referencework on one of the canonical theorists of the late 20th century.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME ONE: PHILOSOPHY

Introduction Alan R Malachowski

PART ONE: IN THE ANALYTIC FOLD

The Challenge of Scientific Materialism Richard Bernstein

On the Elimination of ̀Sensations' James Cornman

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What is Eliminative Materialism? W Lycan and G Pappas

Varieties of Privileged Access William Alston

Rorty Revisited Eric Bush

Is ̀Eliminative Materialism' Materialism? David R Hiley

Rorty, Materialism and Privileged Access Arnold B Levinson

Mind-Body Identity, a Side Issue? Charles Taylor

Scientific Psychology as Hermeneutics? Rorty's Philosophy of Mind John Furlong

Transcendental Arguments I Anthony L Brueckner

PART TWO: LATER RESPONSES

The Case for Rorty Daniel C Dennett

Richard Rorty and the Epistemology of Truth E J Bond

Bond on Rorty on Truth C G Prado

Truth vs. Rorty Uwe Steinhoff

Truth Rehabilitated Donald DavidsonThe Question of Realism Hilary Putnam

What is at Stake Between Putnam and Rorty? Paul D Forster

Veritable Reflections Gerald Vision

Beyond Realism And Anti-Realism Dorthea Frede

Rorty On Heidegger And Davidson

VOLUME TWO: POST-ANALYTIC PRAGMATISM

PART ONE: REFLECTIONS ON RORTY'S MIRROR TEXT

Rorty's Mirrorless World Michael Devitt

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Robert Schwartz

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Nino Langiulli

Mind-Body, Realism and Rorty's Therapy Victoria ChoyPhilosophy After Rorty Philip Pettit

Rorty's Antipodeans Kenneth T Gallagher

An Impossible Illustration?

Epistemology Without Foundations Mary Hesse

Deep Epistemology Without Foundations (In Language) Alan R Malachowski

Interrupting the Conversation Rebecca Comay

Notes on Rorty

Rorty and the New Hermeneutics Frank G Verges

PART TWO: PRAGMATISM REVIEWED

The World Regained Milton Fisk

Pragmatism and the World Crawford L Elder

Rorty's Pragmatism R W Sleeper

Afloat in Neurath's Boat, But Why Adrift?

A Missing Dimension in Rorty's Use of Pragmatism Abraham Edel

What is the Legacy of Instrumentalism? James Gouinlock

Rorty's Interpretation of Dewey

Of Depth and Loss Daniel W Conway

The Peritropaic Legacy of Dewey's Pragmatism

Just Do It Lynn A Baker

Pragmatism and Progressive Social Change

Objectivity, Science and Relativism C G Prado



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An Un-Rortyan Defence of Rorty's Pragmatism Kai Nielsen

Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Language Danielle Macbeth

Pragmatism James T Kloppenberg

An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking?

Varieties of Pragmatism Robert Kraut

VOLUME THREE: POLITICS, IRONY AND SOLIDARITY

PART ONE: LIBERALISM AS POLITICS

Rorty's Liberal Utopia Richard Bernstein

Richard Rorty, Liberalism and the Politics of Redescription Keith Topper

Democracy Without Foundations Ruth Anna Putnam

Cruelty and Liberalism John Kekes

Liberalism and Cruelty Eric M Gander

Rorty on Liberty and Democracy Marker Melkonian

Post-colonial Liberalism Alan R MalachowskiDeconstruction Pragmatism and the Politics of Democracy Chantal Mouffe

Strenuous Unbelief Jonathan Ree

Pragmatism, Social Democracy and Political Arguments Matthew Festenstein

PART TWO: IRONY AND SOLIDARITY

The Irony of Contingency and Solidarity Timothy Cleveland

Private Irony and Public Decency Thomas McCarthy

Richard Rorty's New Pragmatism

Self-realization and Solidarity Richard King

Rorty and the Judging Self

That Most Complex Being Norman Geras

Solidarity or Singularity? Nancy FraserRichard Rorty Between Romanticism and Technocracy

Liberal Irony and Social Reform Larry A Hickman

Evading the Subject? Steven E Cole

The Poverty of Contingency Theory

Irony, State, and Utopia Daniel Conway

Review Symposium Terence Ball et al

Richard Rorty

VOLUME FOUR: CULTURE, INTERPRETATIONS AND CONVERSATIONS

PART ONE: CULTURE

Philosophy as a Kind of Narrative Christopher Norris

Rorty on Post-Modern Liberal Culture

Rorty's Cultural Conversation Frank Lentricchia

Philosophy and the Achievement of Community R Eldridge

Rorty, Cavell and Criticism

Multiculturalism and the Possibility of Transcultural Educational andPhilosophical Ideals

Harvey Siegel

PART TWO: INTERPRETATIONS

Rorty's Interpretation of Hegel N Rotenstreich

The Thought of Being and the Conversation of Mankind J D Caputo

The Case of Heidegger and Rorty

On Saving Heidegger from Rorty Charles B Guignon

Deconstruction in Philosophy H Veatch



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Has Rorty Made it the Denouement of Contemporary AnalyticalPhilosophy?

Deconstruction and Pragmatism Simon Critchley

On Not Circumventing the Quasi-Transcendental J D CaputoThe Case of Rorty and Derrida

What is the Difference that Makes a Difference? Richard Bernstein

Gadamer, Habermas and Rorty

Hermeneutics and the Social Sciences Georgia Warnke

A Gadamerian Critique of Rorty

Davidson in Context John McDowell

Saving Wittgenstein from Conservatism (Richard Rorty) Alice Crary

PART THREE: FURTHER CONVERSATIONS

Mirror of America William Connolly

Confessions of an Old-Fashioned Prig Susan Haack

The Historicization of Analytical Philosophy Peter Dews

Postmodernist Relativism Simon Blackburn

Pragmatism, Pluralism and Legal Interpretation Michel Rosenfield

Posner's and Rorty's Justice Without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech

Philosophical Prose and Practice Richard McCleary

Feminism and Pragmatism Sabina Lovibond

A Reply to Rorty



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