{"product_id":"richard-rorty-critical-dialogues-hardback-9780745621654","title":"Richard Rorty; Critical Dialogues (Hardback) 9780745621654","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRichard Rorty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCritical Dialogues\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew Festenstein (Edited by), Festenstein (Author), Simon Thompson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745621654, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 October 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This volume is a cut above the rest since it finds Rorty's critics and commentators on excellent form and Rorty himself rising to the challenge with far more vigour and passion than he has often been able to muster in recent years. The editors have done a good job in keeping the focus steadily on social, political, and ethico-juridical issues and thereby giving the book a distinctive profile. They have also exercised shrewd judgement in assembling a well-qualified team of contributors whose attitudes range from outspoken opposition, through varying degrees of critical reserve, to qualified endorsement of Rorty's thinking on a number of central issues. This in turn has provoked Rorty to offer a series of thoughtful, extended and sometimes quite combative (even prickly) rejoinders which tell us far more about the scope and limits of his 'North-Atlantic postmodern bourgeois-liberal pragmatist' outlook than previous such encounters. This book should do much to extend and refine the terms of a debate around Rorty's work that has too often become just a pretext for the exchange of routine hostilities.' C\u003ci\u003ehristopher Norris, University of Cardiff, Wales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[The book] is an example of first-rate critisism...This collection serves as a very good introduction to Rorty's work in these areas of philosophy. Further, the dialogical character of this collection makes it valuable for those who seek a refined understanding of Rorty's views.\" \u003ci\u003eDavid F. Dudrick, Philosophy in Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRichard Rorty is one of the most influential and provocative figures in contemporary intellectual life. He argues that many of philosophy's traditional concerns are redundant, and that the goal of inquiry should not be truth but human betterment. In this collection a distinguished team of scholars grapples with the implications of his writings for social and political thought. Avoiding mindless adulation or ritual denunciation, they offer careful but critical investigations of the meaning of Rorty's work for a range of important issues. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopics explored include anti-foundationalism; irony and commitment; justice; liberalism and utopianism; reason and aesthetics; humanism and anti-humanism; the Holocaust; the theory of international relations; social democracy and the pragmatist tradition. Each essay is followed by a reply written for this volume by Rorty. The volume also includes a substantial essay by Rorty on 'Justice as a Larger Loyalty'.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is indispensable for any reader interested in Rorty's work, or in contemporary debates in social, political or ethical theory. Contributors: Molly Cochran; Daniel Conway; Matthew Festenstein; Norman Geras; John Horton; David Owen; Richard Rorty; Kate Soper; Simon Thompson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of contributors. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Richard Rorty: Pragmatism, Irony and Liberalism: \u003ci\u003eMatthew Festenstein.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Irony and Commitment: An Irreconcilable Dualism of Modernity: \u003ci\u003eJohn Horton.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to John Horton: \u003ci\u003eRichard Rorty.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.Richard Rorty on Truth, Justification, and Justice: \u003ci\u003eSimon Thompson.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to Simon Thompson: \u003ci\u003eRichard Rorty.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Irony, State and Utopia: \u003ci\u003eDaniel Conway.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to Daniel Conway: \u003ci\u003eRichard Rorty.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Avoidance of Cruelty: Richard Rorty on Liberalism, Scepticism and Ironism: \u003ci\u003eDavid Owen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to David Owen: \u003ci\u003eRichard Rorty.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Richard Rorty: Humanist and\/or Anti-Humanist? \u003ci\u003eKate Soper.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to Kate Soper: \u003ci\u003eRichard Rorty.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.Reason and Aesthetics Between Modernity and Postmodernity: Habermas and Rorty: \u003ci\u003eRichard Shusterman.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to Richard Shusterman: \u003ci\u003eRichard Rorty.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Progress Without Foundations? \u003ci\u003eNorman Geras.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to Norman Geras: \u003ci\u003eRichard Rorty.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Rorty's Neo-Pragmatism: Some Implications for International Relations Theory: \u003ci\u003eMolly Cochran.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to Molly Cochran: \u003ci\u003eRichard Rorty.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Pragmatism, Social Democracy, and Political Argument: \u003ci\u003eMatthew Festenstein.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to Matthew Festenstein: \u003ci\u003eRichard Rorty.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. 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