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
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