Post-metaphysical Hope: New Pragmatic Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

Author: Richard Rorty
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: Contemporary Academic Trends Translation Series. This book collects the main essays published by Richard Rorty, a representative figure of contemporary American neopragmatism and postmodernism, in the past 10 years. It systematically elaborates on Rorty's social philosophy, political philosophy, and legal philosophy. In these works, Rorty not only continues to develop his ideas on anti-essentialist ontology, anti-representationalist epistemology, and relativist truth theory but also fervently advocates for biophilosophical humanism, minimal program liberalism in political thought, non-principled ethics, emotivism, trivialist jurisprudence, pragmatic feminism, cultural political interpretation of human rights, privatized religious views, and other propositions. He proposes a philosophy that replaces knowledge with hope and reason with imagination. This book comprehensively demonstrates the profound impact of Rorty's philosophy on the entire Western philosophical tradition, making it a must-read for understanding the latest trends and dynamics of contemporary Western philosophy.