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This book brings Jewish moral reasoning into conversation with Richard Rorty's secular neo-pragmatist philosophy, which oftentimes comes across as anti-religious. The result is a type of hope for the future concerning the relationship between Judaism and secularism.
List of contents
Introduction by Jacob L: Goodson
Part 1: Social Hope and Solidarity: Bringing Jewish Philosophy and Rorty's Neo-pragmatism Together
Chapter 1: Rorty, my Atheist Rabbi? Between Irony and Social Hope by Akiba Lerner
Chapter 2: Prudence in the Twenty-first Century: Moving Beyond the Morality-Prudence Distinction with Maimonides and Rorty by Jacob L: Goodson
Chapter 3: Charlottesville Pragmatism: Richard Rorty's Neo-pragmatism and Peter Ochs's Rabbinic Pragmatism by Gary Slater
Part 2: Politics and Prophecy: Finding Common Ground in Jewish Theology and Rorty's Secular Liberalism
Chapter 4: The Grounds of Prophecy: Richard Rorty and the Hermeneutics of History by Samuel Hayim Brody
Chapter 5: Messianism as a Conversation Stopper? Ironic Utopianism and Pragmatist Jewish Politics by Elliot Ratzman
Chapter 6: How to Read Rorty as a Political Theologian: And Why We Should by Stephen Minister
Part 3: Conversation and Cruelty: Putting Rorty's Philosophy in Conversation with Emmuel Levinas's Jewish Ethics
Chapter 7: All in the Details: Rorty and Levinas on Language, Cruelty, and Togetherness by Megan Craig
Chapter 8: Two Faces of Heteronomy: Autonomy and Cruelty in Rorty and Levinas by Brad Elliott Stone
Chapter 9: "A Faith without Triumph": Levinas, Rorty, and Prophetic Pragmatism by J: Aaron Simmons
Chapter 10: Rabbinic Reasoning and a Rortyan Ethic: Narrative, Pragmatism, and Solidarity by Hannah Hashkes
Conclusion: Rorty and Heidegger's Nazism by Brad Elliott Stone
About the author
Jacob L. Goodson is associate professor of philosophy at Southwestern College.
Brad Elliott Stone is professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University.
Summary
This book brings Jewish moral reasoning into conversation with Richard Rorty’s secular neo-pragmatist philosophy, which oftentimes comes across as anti-religious. The result is a type of hope for the future concerning the relationship between Judaism and secularism.
