Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Rorty and Confucianism 1
5. Relativity, Contingency, and Moral Progress
6. Rorty, Confucius, and Intercultural Relativism 21
7. On Three Contingencies in Richard Rorty 45
8. Rorty’s Progress into Confucian Truths 73
9. Morality and Human Nature
10. A Comparative Examination of Rorty’s and Mencius’s Theories of Human Nature 101
11. Rorty and Mencius on Family, Nature, and Morality 117
12. Rorty Meets Confucius 129
13. Postmodernism
14. A Confucian Response to Rorty’s Postmodern Bourgeois Liberal Idea of Community 161
15. Philosophy and Literature 181
16. Coping with Incommensurable Pursuits 195
17. The “Other”
18. Rortian Extremes and the Confucian Zhongyong 213
19. Tradition and Transcendence in Masters Kong and Rorty 227
20. Becoming Practically Religious 255
21. Responses
22. Responses to Critics 279
23. Glossary of Chinese Terms 301
24. Contributors 309
25. Index 313