Post-metaphysical hope (New Pragmatism in 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, systematically elaborating on Rorty's social philosophy, political philosophy, and legal philosophy. In these essays, Rorty not only continues to develop his ideas on anti-essentialist ontology, anti-representationalist epistemology, and relativist truth, but also fervently advocates for biophilosophical humanism, minimal program liberalism in political theory, non-principled ethics and emotivism, trivialist jurisprudence, pragmatic feminism, cultural political interpretation of human rights, privatized religious views, and other propositions, proposing 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 and is a must-read for understanding the new trends and dynamics of contemporary Western philosophy.