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Response to Richard Shusterman

Richard Rorty

In Matthew Festenstein & Simon Thompson (eds.), Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues. Malden, MA: Polity. pp. 152--57 (2001)

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Pragmatism and East-Asian Thought.Richard Shusterman - 2004 - Metaphilosophy 35 (1-2):13-43.details After noting some conditions of historical and contemporary context that favor a dialogue between pragmatism and East‐Asian thought, which could help generate a new international philosophical perspective, this essay focuses on several themes that pragmatism shares with classical Chinese philosophy. Among the interrelated themes explored are the primacy of practice, the emphasis on pluralism, context, and flux, a recognition of fallibilism, an appreciation of the powers of art for individual, social, and political reconstruction, the pursuit of perfectionist self‐cultivation in the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 17 citations
Post-critical pedagogy as poetic practice: combining affirmative and critical vocabularies.Kai Wortmann - 2019 - Ethics and Education 14 (4):467-481.details Currently, the repetition of a critical way of speaking results in a stagnating tendency in educational debates. This had led to the endeavour of developing a ‘post-critical pedagogy’. This paper employs Rortyan and Latourian language in order to tackle the question of how such a post-critical pedagogy should deal with critique. It argues that if one takes critique as what Latour calls a debunking activity, then post-critical pedagogy should leave critique behind. If however critique means simply to say how something (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations
What is Pragmatism in Brazil Today?Paulo Ghiraldelli & Cody Carr - 2005 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 24 (6):499-514.details This paper analyses the relations between Pragmatism and Brazilian culture, nowadays defined as a plural culture. It shows that the introduction of Pragmatism into Brazilian educational movements in the past actually made such culture much more receptive to pragmatist ideas. After discussing the concepts of truth and minimalism on Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Papers, the authors conclude that Brazilian education today is receptive to the conception in which new narratives can be used as a powerful instrument to change the world. Download Export citation Bookmark
Philosophy, writing, and liberation.Richard Shusterman - 2023 - Metaphilosophy 54 (4):415-425.details In responding to the three creative interpretive discussions in the symposium on my book Philosophy and the Art of Writing, this paper explores the different styles of philosophical discourse and their role in the practice of philosophy as a way of life that extends beyond the discursive and that combines self-cultivation with care for others in the ethical-aesthetic pursuit of living beauty. In advocating this aesthetic model of philosophical life over a purely therapeutic model, I suggest how the former can (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Feeling Beyond the Text: Reflections on The Rorty Reader.Richard Shusterman - 2011 - Contemporary Pragmatism 8 (2):205-212.details Examining key themes presented in the excellent Rorty Reader, this essay also argues that Rorty's philosophical import extends beyond the propositional content of his texts. After indicating how Rorty's central philosophical stance of anti-representationalism is expressed in his aestheticist advocacy of a pluralist literary culture and his theory that ethics and moral progress can be properly based only on sentiments rather than rationality, the paper explains why his philosophy should have therefore embraced the role of embodied experience rather than rejecting (...) it. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Does Richard Rorty have ‘anything to say to blacks’? Greater cruelties, lesser cruelties and the permanence of racism.Nathan W. Dean - forthcoming - Philosophy and Social Criticism.details Richard Rorty does have something ‘to say to [Black Americans]’ and to their racially conscious nonblack allies in the sense that his understanding of liberalism, his prophecies about the future and his urgent appeals to the American Left all paint a picture of a white middle class fully prepared to make life increasingly miserable for Black Americans unless it is ‘protected from catastrophe’. Rorty hopes that this group will undergo a moral transformation that enables it to see past its narrow (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Rorty’s Virtuous Ambivalence toward Art.William M. Hawley - 2014 - The European Legacy 19 (2):215-228.details Richard Rorty sacrifices high art on the altar of freedom, tolerance, and equality, although novelists like Dickens awaken his hope for the greatest possible improvement in our cultural well-being. Essentialist artists and philosophers of misery strike him as loathing ordinary humans and their foibles. His populist aesthetics owes to his belief in pragmatism as redemptive “knowledge about how things really are.” Still, he rejects some progressive works as artistic failures while embracing other art forms that ignore culture altogether. Rorty’s advocacy (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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