TY - BOOK AU - Huang,Yong TI - Rorty, pragmatism and confucianism : with responses by Richard Rorty T2 - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture SN - 9780791476840 U1 - 181.112 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - State University of New York Press KW - Rorty, Richard KW - Confucianism KW - Pragmatism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Rorty and Confucianism: An Introduction; Yong Huang --; Pt. I; Relativity, Contingency, and Moral Progress --; 2; Rorty, Confucius, and Intercultural Relativism; Kuang-Ming Wu --; 3; On Three Contingencies in Richard Rorty: A Confucian Critique; Chung-Ying Cheng --; 4; Rorty's Progress into Confucian Truths; Yong Huang --; Pt. II; Morality and Human Nature --; 5; A Comparative Examination of Rorty's and Mencius's Theories of Human Nature; Peimin Ni --; 6; Rorty and Mencius on Family, Nature, and Morality; James Behuniak, Jr. --; 7; Rorty Meets Confucius: A Dialogue Across Millenia; Robert Elliott Allinson --; Pt. III; Postmodernism: Community, Literature, and Value --; 8; A Confucian Response to Rorty's Postmodern Bourgeois Liberal Idea of Community; Sor-Hoon Tan --; 9; Philosophy and Literature: Rorty and Confucianism; Hans-Georg Moeller --; 10; Coping with Incommensurable Pursuits: Rorty, Berlin, and the Confucian-Daoist Complementarity; Chenyang Li --; Pt. IV; The "Other"; Nature, Reality; and Transcendence --; 11; Rortian Extremes and the Confucian Zhongyong; Majorie C. Miller --; 12; Tradition and Transcendence in Masters Kong and Rorty; Kelly James Clark --; 13; Becoming Practically Religious: A Deweyan and Confucian Context for Rortian Religiousness; Roger T. Ames --; Pt. V; Responses --; 14; Responses to Critics; Richard M. Rorty ER -