The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination by Showler, Paul

The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032074894)

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The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination by Showler, Paul

The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination

$170.00
The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination by Showler, Paul

The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination

$170.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book contains diverse and critical reflections on Richard Rorty's contributions to ethics, an aspect of his thought that has been relatively neglected. Together, they demonstrate that Rorty offers a compelling and coherent ethical vision. The book's chapters, grouped thematically, explore Rorty's emphasis on the importance of moral imagination, social relations, language, and literature as instrumental for ethical self-transformation, as well as for strengthening what Rorty called "social hope," which entails constant work toward a more democratic, inclusive, and cosmopolitan society and world.

Several contributors address the ethical implications of Rorty's commitment to a vision of political liberalism without philosophical foundations. Others offer critical examinations of Rorty's claim that our private or individual projects of self-creation can or should be held apart from our public goals of ameliorating social conditions and reducing cruelty and suffering. Some contributors explore hurdles that impede the practical applications of certain of Rorty's ideas.

The Ethics of Richard Rorty will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in American philosophy and ethics.



Author: Susan Dieleman
ISBN-10: 1032074892
ISBN-13: 9781032074894
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2022
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
By Susan Dieleman
By Susan Dieleman
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Susan Dieleman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA. She is the coeditor of Pragmatism and Justice (2017) and of the Conference Proceedings for the 2017 meeting of the Richard Rorty Society (2019). She is also coeditor of the entry on Richard Rorty for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

David E. McClean is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Business and Professional Ethics at Rutgers University, Newark, USA. He is the editor of The Integrated Ethics Reader: Reconnecting Thought, Emotion, and Reverence in a World on the Brink (2020) and Understanding and Combating Global Corruptions: A Reader (2021). He is the author of Wall Street, Reforming the Unreformable: An Ethical Perspective (Routledge, 2015) and Richard Rorty, Liberalism, and Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2014).

Paul Showler is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. His dissertation draws from recent work in pragmatism and philosophical genealogy to develop and defend a new approach for thinking about moral status.

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