I. One step forward, two steps backward: Richard Rorty on Liberal Democracy and Philosophy

Political Theory

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 538-563

  Bernstein, Richard J ^a  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1177/0090591787015004003     Document Type: Article

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2. Lewis S. Feuer, “John Dewey and the Back-to-the-People Movement in American Thought,” Journal of the History of Ideas, December 1959, pp. 545-68.
3. Richard J. Bernstein, John Dewey (New York: Washington Square Press, 1966; reprinted by Ridgeview, 1981), chap. 3, “The Shaping of a Social Reformer.”.
4. John Dewey, “Creative Democracy” The Task Before Us, reprinted in Classic American Philosophers, ed. M. Fisch (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951), p. 394.
5. Dewey, “Creative Democracy,” p. 394.
6. John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (New York: Henry Holt, 1927), p. 98.
7. John Dewey, Freedom and Culture (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1939), p. 130.
8. John Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action (New York: Capricorn Books, 1935), reprinted in The Philosophy of John Dewey, ed. John J. McDermott (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1973), 2, pp. 647-48.
9. Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979), p. 5.
10. Rorty's “Consequences of Pragmatism,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Winter 1985, pp. 1-48.
11. Gary Brodsky, “Rorty's Interpretation of Pragmatism,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Fall 1982, pp. 311-37.
12. Rorty's “Introduction” to Consequences of Pragmatism (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1982).
13. Richard Rorty, “The Contingency of Selfhood,” London Review of Books, 8 May 1986.
14. Richard Rorty, “The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy,” forthcoming in The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom: Two Hundred Years After, ed. Robert Vaughan.
15. Michael J. Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982], p. 147).
16. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), pp. 21, 579.
17. Amy Gutmann's discussion of Rawls's understanding of justification, “Communitarian Critics of Liberalism,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, Summer 1985, p. 312.
18. Richard Rorty, “Back to the Demarcation Problem,” forthcoming, in a volume tentatively entitled The Shaping of Rationality, to be edited by Ernan McMullin and published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
19. Richard Rorty, “From Logic to Language to Play,” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, June 1986, pp. 752-53.
20. William Sullivan, Reconstructing Public Philosophy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).
21. Hannah Arendt's discussion of the American Revolution and the contribution of Jefferson in On Revolution (New York: Viking Press, 1962.
22. John Dewey, Freedom and Culture (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1939).
23. Rorty is even more explicit on this point when in his reply to Clifford Geertz's “The Uses at Diversity” he says: “Anti-anti-ethnocentrists, suggest that liberals. should simply drop the distinction between rational judgment and cultural bias” (“On Ethnocen-trism: A Reply to Clifford Geertz,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer 1986, pp. 525-34).
24. Rorty's discussion “deep intuitions” in his Introduction to Consequences of Pragmatism.
25. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981), p. 206.
26. William E. Connolly, “Mirror of America,” Raritan, Summer 1983, pp. 124-35.
27. H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1946), p. 71.
28. Michel Foucault, “Polemics, Politics, and Problemizations: An Interview,” in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: Pantheon, 1984), p. 385.
29. Peter Dews, Habermas: Autonomy and Solidarity (London: Verso Books, 1986), pp. 6-7.
30. Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Science,” Writing and Difference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), p. 277.
31. Richard Rorty, “Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida,” in Consequences of Pragmatism.
32. Hans-Georg Gadamer, “On the Origin of Philosophical Hermeneutics,” in Philosophical Apprenticeships (Cambridge: M. I. T. Press, 1985), p. 186.