Rorty, pragmatism, and Confucianism : with responses by Richard Rorty / edited by Yong Huang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huang, Yong.

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucianism.

Pragmatism.

Rorty, Richard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty.

Contents:

""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""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791477199

0791477193

OCLC:

923405842