Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. I. RORTY AND POLITICAL THINKING
6. INTRODUCTION. THEORY AND METHOD: RECONSTRUCTING RORTY 3
7. 1. THE AUTHORITY OF THE SOCIAL: A PRAGMATIC ETHOS OF INQUIRY 22
8. II. RORTY AND CONTINENTAL POLITICAL THOUGHT: ONTOLOGY, NATURALISM, AND HISTORY
9. 2. THEORIZING AFTER FOUNDATIONS: ONTOLOGY, LANGUAGE, AND HEIDEGGER 65
10. 3. RECONSTRUCTING NATURALISM: PRAGMATIC OR ONTOLOGICAL? 98
11. 4. HISTORY AND MODERNITY: SELF-ASSERTION AND CRITICAL REFLEXIVITY 127
12. PART III: RORTY AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY: PRAGMATIC SOCIOPOLITICAL CRITICISM
13. 5. PRAGMATIC POLITICAL THINKING AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY 155
14. 6. HOW PRAGMATISM CONSTRAINS AND ENABLES POLITICAL THINKING 202
15. Notes 247
16. References 259
17. Index 275