Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism: With Responses by Richard Rorty

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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. 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 Value8. 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 CriticsGlossary 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.