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

Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski is associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University.

• 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.