Inhalt: | Part I: Social hope and solidarity : bringing Jewish philosophy and Rorty's neo-pragmatism together.Rorty, my atheist Rabbi? : between irony and social hope /Akiba Lerner --Prudence in the twenty-first century : moving beyond the morality-prudence distinction with Maimonides and Rorty /Jacob L: Goodson --Charlottesville pragmatism : Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism and Peter Ochs's rabbinic pragmatismGary Slater --Part II: Politics and prophecy : finding common ground in Jewish theology and Rorty's secular liberalism.The grounds of prophecy : Richard Rorty and the hermeneutics of history by Samuel /Hayim Brody --Messianism as a conversation stopper? : ironic utopianism and pragmatist Jewish politics /Elliot Ratzman --How to read Rorty as a political theologian : and why we should by Stephen Minister --Part III: Conversation and cruelty : putting Rorty's philosophy in conversation with Emmuel Levinas's Jewish ethics.All in the details : Rorty and Levinas on language, cruelty, and togetherness /Megan Craig --Two faces of heteronomy : autonomy and cruelty in Rorty and Levinas /Brad Elliott Stone --"A Faith without Triumph" : Levinas, Rorty, and prophetic pragmatism /J. Aaron Simmons --Rabbinic reasoning and a Rortyan ethic : narrative, pragmatism, and solidarity /Hannah E. Hashkes --Conclusion.Rorty and Heidegger's Nazism. "This book brings Jewish moral reasoning into conversation with Richard Rorty's secular neo-pragmatist philosophy, which often comes across as anti-religious. The result is a type of hope for the future concerning the relationship between Judaism and secularism"-- |
