Yong Huang is Professor of Philosophy at Kutztown University and the author of Religious Goodness and Political Rightness: Beyond the Liberal-Communitarian Debate.

• Acknowledgments1. Rorty and Confucianism: An IntroductionYONG HUANGPART I Relativity, Contingency, and Moral Progress 2. Rorty, Confucius, and Intercultural RelativismKUANG-MING WU3. On Three Contingencies in Richard Rorty: A Confucian CritiqueCHUNG-YING CHENG4. Rorty’s Progress into Confucian TruthsYONG HUANGPART II Morality and Human Nature 5. A Comparative Examination of Rorty’s and Mencius’s Theories of Human NaturePEIMIN NI6. Rorty and Mencius on Family, Nature, and MoralityJAMES BEHUNIAK JR.7. Rorty Meets Confucius: A Dialogue Across MilleniaROBERT ELLIOTT ALLINSONPART III Postmodernism: Community, Literature, and Value 8. A Confucian Response to Rorty’s Postmodern Bourgeois Liberal Idea of CommunitySOR-HOON TAN9. Philosophy and Literature: Rorty and ConfucianismHANS-GEORG MOELLER10. Coping with Incommensurable Pursuits: Rorty, Berlin, and the Confucian-Daoist ComplementarityCHENYANG LIPART IV The "Other": Nature, Reality, and Transcendence 11. Rortian Extremes and the Confucian ZhongyongMAJORIE C. MILLER12. Tradition and Transcendence in Masters Kong and RortyKELLY JAMES CLARK13. Becoming Practically Religious: A Deweyan and Confucian Context for Rortian ReligiousnessROGER T. AMESPART V Responses 14. Responses to CriticsRICHARD M. RORTYGlossaryContributorsIndex

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