Yong Huang is Professor of Philosophy at Kutztown University and the author of Religious Goodness and Political Rightness: Beyond the Liberal-Communitarian Debate.

Acknowledgments

1. Rorty and Confucianism: An Introduction
YONG HUANG

PART I Relativity, Contingency, and Moral Progress

2. Rorty, Confucius, and Intercultural Relativism
KUANG-MING WU

3. On Three Contingencies in Richard Rorty: A Confucian Critique
CHUNG-YING CHENG

4. Rorty's Progress into Confucian Truths
YONG HUANG

PART II Morality and Human Nature

5. A Comparative Examination of Rorty's and Mencius's Theories of Human Nature
PEIMIN NI

6. Rorty and Mencius on Family, Nature, and Morality
JAMES BEHUNIAK JR.

7. Rorty Meets Confucius: A Dialogue Across Millenia
ROBERT ELLIOTT ALLINSON

PART III Postmodernism: Community, Literature, and Value

8. A Confucian Response to Rorty's Postmodern Bourgeois Liberal Idea of Community
SOR-HOON TAN

9. Philosophy and Literature: Rorty and Confucianism
HANS-GEORG MOELLER

10. Coping with Incommensurable Pursuits: Rorty, Berlin, and the Confucian-Daoist Complementarity
CHENYANG LI

PART IV The "Other": Nature, Reality, and Transcendence

11. Rortian Extremes and the Confucian Zhongyong
MAJORIE C. MILLER

12. Tradition and Transcendence in Masters Kong and Rorty
KELLY JAMES CLARK

13. Becoming Practically Religious: A Deweyan and Confucian Context for Rortian Religiousness
ROGER T. AMES

PART V Responses

14. Responses to Critics
RICHARD M. RORTY

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