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Title: The Rorty-Habermas debate: toward freedom as responsibility
Creators: Kilanowski Marcin
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Table of Contents

  • Contents
  • From the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
    • The Specter of Auschwitz
    • Pragmatism
    • On Sources and Crucial Issues
    • Step by Step
  • I Opening: First Comes Dewey
    • Introduction
    • From Crisis to New Liberalism
    • Individual and Community
    • Which Political Form?
    • Radical Democracy
    • Dialogue and Education
    • Toward Great Community
    • Utopian Project
    • Followers
  • II On Rorty’s Sociopolitical Thought
    • Introduction
      • Rorty and Dewey
      • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
      • Contingency
      • Ethnocentrism
      • Whichever Kind of Politics
      • Breaking with the Tradition
    • From Contingency to Irony
      • On Contingency
        • Two Approaches to Truth
        • Contingency of Language and Self
        • New Languages, New Vocabularies, New Ways of Thinking
        • Rationality
        • Relativism?
        • Beyond Relativism
        • Usefulness
        • The Place of “Truth” in the Political Sphere
      • On Irony
        • Ironists and Metaphysicians
        • Ironic Theorists and Liberal Theorists
        • Freeing from Metaphysical Longing
    • Toward an Ideal Liberal State
      • On Ethnocentrism
      • Contingent Liberal Society
    • Toward a New Liberal Discourse
      • On Liberal Institutions
        • From Deconstruction to Alternative Solutions
        • Toward Tolerance
        • Problems and Progress
      • Toward Limiting Cruelty and Suffering
        • Liberal Utopia
        • From Objectivity to Solidarity
        • Pain, Suffering, and Human Solidarity
        • Solidarity is Contingent
      • Communication
        • Toward Agreement
        • “Equality of Opportunity” and the “Standard Bourgeois Freedoms”
    • Objections
      • Two Basic Objections
      • Attempt at Answering the First Objection: Does the Concept of Irony Contribute to the Weakening of Liberal Society?
      • Attempt at Answering the Second Objection: Is Ironism to Be Reconciled with Solidarity?
    • On Division into the Private and the Public
      • Blaming the Truth
      • The Private and the Public
      • Can We Make Such a Division?
      • Rorty’s Inconsistence?
      • Unjustified Fears
      • Is It Already “As Good”?
      • All Categories Are Good—As Long as They Bring Us Advantage
    • Conclusion
  • III On Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action
    • Introduction
      • From Radical Criticism to Reform
      • The Structure of the Theory of Communicative Action
    • Central Problems in the Theory of Action
      • Communicative Rationality and Communicative Action
        • Communicative Rationality
        • Argumentation
        • Rational Action and Validity Claims
        • Validity of Expression and Justification
        • Universal Acceptance
        • Communicative Action
      • Lifeworld and System
        • Lifeworld—Implicit Knowledge and Context
        • Lifeworld and Formal World-Concepts
        • Narrowness of Culturalistic Concept of Lifeworld
        • The Role of Systems
        • Rationalization of the Lifeworld
        • Development of Law and Morality—An Aspect of the Rationalization of the Lifeworld
        • Contingency and Ideologies
        • Two Types of Action and the Two Mechanisms of Their Coordination
      • Dangers and the Possibility to Overcome Them
        • Reification and Cultural Impoverishment
        • Proving the Thesis on Reification—Juridification
        • Legal Institutions
        • Overcoming Dangers
        • Competition of Social Integration Principles
    • Constructing a Theory
      • Toward Universal Validity of Our Understanding of Rationality
      • Proof
      • No Ultimate Justifications—No Fundamentalist Claims
      • Are Validity Claims Universal?
    • Toward Social Theory
      • Social Theory—Societal Rationalization
      • The Ideal of the Fully Rational Life-Form—Utopianism
      • Cooperative Effort
      • Communication—Premises and Arguments (Ethics of Discourse)
      • Communication, History, and the Unity of Reason
      • Toward Modern Society
    • Recapitulation
  • IV On the Convergence of the Perspectives of Rorty and Habermas
    • The Convergence
      • Different Rhetoric
      • Rorty’s Fear of Idealization
      • Idealized Rational Acceptability
      • Presence of Idealization in the Philosophies of Habermas and Rorty
      • They Do Not Differ That Much
      • New Worlds
      • Creating New Worlds
      • Validity Claims
      • Rorty against the Idea of Communicative Rationality
      • Necessary Communicative Rationality
      • Difference
      • Issue of Understanding Human Nature
      • To Recapitulate: Much in Common
    • What Kind of Politics?
      • Democracy
      • Liberal Democracy without Philosophical Justification
      • Proceduralist Deliberative Politics
    • Toward Freedom as Responsibility
      • Two Concepts of Liberty
      • Rorty—Against the “Positive” Version of Freedom
      • Common Moral Convictions
      • Beyond Truth—Advocating Pluralism
      • Decentered Vision of the World
      • Reaching Understanding and Reproduction
      • Toward a Compromise
      • Concrete Values
      • Responsibility to Our Community
      • For Us to Be Better
      • Not to Hurt
      • Resigning from Violence
      • Toward Responsible Freedom
      • To Take Responsibility
    • Toward Liberal Utopia
      • Social Hope
      • Liberal Society
      • Communication and Complications
      • On Role of Philosophy and Philosophers, and on Responsibility
  • V Postscript: From Dewey to Rorty and Habermas
    • The Main Themes
    • Philosophy
    • From Truth to Freedom
    • Democracy—One of the Ways
    • Progress and Free Communication
    • Pragmatism and Utopias
  • Conclusion
    • Aims
    • Validity Claims
    • Formal Conditions
    • Arriving at a Consensus
    • Answering the Main Question
    • What to Do in Order for It Not to Happen Again?
    • It Will Be the Way We Decide
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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