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Richard Rorty - Pragmatism and Political Liberalism (Paperback)
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Richard Rorty is both the most prominent and the most provocative
recent exponent of pragmatism. This book offers a sympathetic
reconstruction of Rorty's account of pragmatism, in which the
aspiration to underwrite inquiry by reference to standards outside
of any particular community is given up in favor of a view of
inquiry as answerable exclusively to the norms implicit within
contingent human practices. Rorty hopes that pragmatism so
conceived can help effect a transition towards what he calls an
'anti-authoritarian' society, a society in which responsibility is
owed solely to one's fellow citizens. The book examines the
relationship between pragmatism and political liberalism, a form of
liberalism which sets aside discussion of truth and value and seeks
instead to derive a constitutional settlement in which citizens can
freely pursue their individual projects and purposes. It presents a
critical assessment of Rorty's ideal of a liberal utopia, inhabited
by strong poets and liberal ironists. By focusing on the
relationship between the philosophical and political, the book
argues that Rorty provides a compelling statement of pragmatism,
containing insights that command the attention of contemporary
liberal philosophers. Through textual analysis and reconstruction,
it argues that while Rorty's account needs to be amended at several
points, it remains a powerful and attractive one, and not the
incoherent and pernicious folly that critics often take it to be.
Well researched, lively, and succinct, Richard Rorty: Pragmatism
and Political Liberalism is ideally suited to specialists and
graduate students in philosophy and political theory.
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