Values, Valuations, and Axiological Norms in Richard Rorty's Neopragmatism

Studies, Polemics, Interpretations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Richard Rorty is perhaps the most famous American philosopher internationally, and his later, neopragmatist philosophy is decidedly one of his most commented upon. Values, Valuations, and Axiological Norms in Richard Rorty's Neopragmatism proposes different themes in order to delve into the enormous potential that Rorty's later philosophical thought possesses, using the perspective of the axiological and normative dimensions. With reference to philosophers such as Kant, Dewey, Santayana, and Kolakowski, Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski argues that a democratic society is the basic axiological framework and that Rorty’s normative focus is the melioration of democratic society. The novelty of this philosophy is that it pays special attention to discourses, narratives, and story-telling as containing within themselves axiological and normative aspects. This book presents these discourses as a way of constructing and reconstructing social reality, rather than as a means of describing reality from a detached perspective. According to this framework, human activity, well-being, and solidarity with other people should be evoked by us much more than any reference to God, the Truth, or absolute Values. This book is written for anyone with interests in American philosophy, intellectual history, or political philosophy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-09-10
Mått159 x 236 x 15 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAmerican Philosophy Series
Antal sidor148
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498509459

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Chapter 1: Naturalistic Axiology and Normativity in RortyChapter 2: Rortyan and Kantian Contributions to Understanding of the Good Life in Democratic Culture: Discourses, Norms, and Axiological Points of ReferenceChapter 3: Rorty’s Neopragmatist Philosophy as a Kind of HumanismChapter 4: Aesthetic Persuasion and Political Compulsion: Literary Philosophy in Light of Rorty’s Ideas of Democratic Liberalism and Cultural PoliticsChapter 5: Socio-Political Values in ‘the Great Films’ and their role in Cultural Politics in Light of Rorty’s PhilosophyChapter 6: Economic Crisis and Ethnocentric Rhetoric in American Neopragmatism (Rorty)

Values, Valuations, and Axiological Norms is an excellent work. Skowronski’s arguments, analyses, and insights are new and important. These arguments are not only interesting, but persuasive, and Skowronski offers, besides the well-known approaches, new insights for the readers. This is a major contribution to the overall picture of Richard Rorty, especially in the sense that the author shows main features of Rorty’s neopragmatism—his basic values, the principles of contingency and relativity, re-description, the public-private split, liberal utopia, etc.—from Rorty’s liberal democratic angle.