Toward philosophy without mirrors
Introduction: Metaphilosophical difficulties of lingustic philosophy
Dewey's metaphysics
Philosophy and the mirror of nature
Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism
Nineteenth-century idealism and twentieth-century textualism
Conversations with analytic philosophy
From logic to language to play
Pragmatism, Davidson, and truth
Twenty-five years after
Putnam and the relativist menace
Analytic and conversational philosophy
From anti-representationalism
To political liberalism
Philosophy as science, as metaphor, and as politics
Solidarity or objectivity
The priority of democracy to philosophy
Freud and moral reflection
Private irony and liberal hope
Pragmatism, literature, and democracy
The humanistic intellectual eleven theses
Philosophers, novelists, and intercultural comparisons: Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens
De man and the American cultural left
Feminism and pragmatism
Human rights, rationality, and sentimentality
Looking backwards from the year 2096
American national pride Whitman and Dewey
Redemption from egotism
Philosophy as cultural politics
Truth without correspondence to reality
Ethics without principles
Justice as a larger loyalty
Pragmatism as romantic polytheism
Religion in the public square
Is cultural recognition a useful concept for leftist politics?
Philosophy as a transitional genre
Autobiographical
From philosophy to post-philosophy
Trotsky and the wild orchids
Biography and philosophy
The fire of life.
The Rorty reader. ISBN 9781405198325. Published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.