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1. Cover
2. Copyright
3. Contents
4. Contributor Biographies
5. Abbreviations for Key Works by Richard Rorty
6. 1. Introduction: From Explication to Application
   1. Elin Danielsen Huckerby and Marianne Janack
7. 2. Rorty’s Interpretations and the Possibility of Social Change
   1. Marianne Janack
8. 3. Tenderness as the Norm: Rorty on ‘Intense Mental Pain’
   1. Paul Giladi
      1. Joshing Rorty
      2. ‘Shallow Rorty’
      3. Rorty on Cruelty (Part 1)
      4. Rorty on Cruelty (Part 2)
      5. Conclusion
9. 4. Actually (Anti-)Utopian? Levitas, Rorty and the Conditions of Utopianism
   1. Elin Danielsen Huckerby
      1. Co-opting utopianism in the service of reform?
      2. Imagination in the service of politics
      3. Lack of imagination in service of the status quo
      4. Rorty’s utopian vision
      5. Proper utopianism versus pragmatism about utopian practices
      6. Re-forming our way to utopia
10. 5. Pragmatist Eirenism in Post-Truth Society
    1. Michela Bella
       1. Eirenism as pragmatist inheritance
       2. Linguistic contingency and pragmatist eirenism
       3. Pragmatist eirenism and the contingency of selfhood
       4. Contingent communities and pragmatist eirenism
       5. Pragmatist eirenism and the challenges of post-truth society
       6. Conclusion
11. 6. Creative Doubts against Authoritarian Certainty: Rorty through Reparative Critique
    1. Heidi Salaverría
       1. Paranoid and reparative autonomy
       2. Creative doubting
       3. Authoritarian certainty through sublime purification
       4. Self-creation and humiliation
       5. Reparative solidarity
12. 7. Rortyan Irony as Civic Virtue in Our Myside Society
    1. Martin Müller
       1. The liberal ironist in our fragmented public sphere
       2. Pragmatism, fallibilism and political virtue
       3. The figure of the liberal ironist and the two senses of irony in Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
       4. Serene fallibilism over epistemological scepticism: Irony as public virtue of openness and creativity
       5. Rorty’s philosophy of conversation and the connection between (romantic) irony and democratic conversability
       6. Rortyan irony as ideal civic virtue of a serene fallibilism and of conversability
13. 8. Irony as Hope and the Future of the Humanities
    1. Bryan Vescio
14. Works Cited
15. Index
16. About the Team
17. This book need not end here…
18. You may also be interested in:
19. Back cover

Headings Outline

• SOLIDARITY IN CONTINGENCY
• Solidarity in Contingency
  • Rorty’s Constructive Project
    • Edited by Elin Danielsen Huckerby and Marianne Janack
• Contents
• Contributor Biographies
• Abbreviations for Key Works by Richard Rorty
• 1. Introduction: From Explication to Application
  • Elin Danielsen Huckerby and Marianne Janack
• 2. Rorty’s Interpretations and the Possibility of Social Change
  • Marianne Janack
  • § 1 §
  • § 2 §
  • § 3 §
  • § 4 §
  • § 5 §
  • § 6 §
• 3. Tenderness as the Norm: Rorty on ‘Intense Mental Pain’
  • Paul Giladi
    • Joshing Rorty
    • ‘Shallow Rorty’
    • Rorty on Cruelty (Part 1)
    • Rorty on Cruelty (Part 2)
    • Conclusion
• 4. Actually (Anti-)Utopian? Levitas, Rorty and the Conditions of Utopianism
  • Elin Danielsen Huckerby
    • Co-opting utopianism in the service of reform?
    • Imagination in the service of politics
    • Lack of imagination in service of the status quo
    • Rorty’s utopian vision
      • Rortyan pragmatism as heuristic ‘grappling’
      • Rorty’s utopia: A fully ‘poeticized culture’
      • Ordinary utopianism
      • Strong utopianism
    • Proper utopianism versus pragmatism about utopian practices
    • Re-forming our way to utopia
• 5. Pragmatist Eirenism in Post-Truth Society
  • Michela Bella
    • Eirenism as pragmatist inheritance
    • Linguistic contingency and pragmatist eirenism
    • Pragmatist eirenism and the contingency of selfhood
    • Contingent communities and pragmatist eirenism
    • Pragmatist eirenism and the challenges of post-truth society
    • Conclusion
• 6. Creative Doubts against Authoritarian Certainty: Rorty through Reparative Critique
  • Heidi Salaverría
    • Paranoid and reparative autonomy
    • Creative doubting
    • Authoritarian certainty through sublime purification
    • Self-creation and humiliation
    • Reparative solidarity
• 7. Rortyan Irony as Civic Virtue in Our Myside Society
  • Martin Müller
    • The liberal ironist in our fragmented public sphere
    • Pragmatism, fallibilism and political virtue
    • The figure of the liberal ironist and the two senses of irony in Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
    • Serene fallibilism over epistemological scepticism: Irony as public virtue of openness and creativity
    • Rorty’s philosophy of conversation and the connection between (romantic) irony and democratic conversability
    • Rortyan irony as ideal civic virtue of a serene fallibilism and of conversability
• 8. Irony as Hope and the Future of the Humanities
  • Bryan Vescio
• Works Cited
• Index
• About the Team
• This book need not end here…
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