One step forward, two steps backward: Richard Rorty on liberal democracy and philosophy

In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 15, Heft v 87

Abstract

Introduces a discussion of the work of Richard Rorty with a brief sketch of Dewey's commitment to radical reform and to democratic communal life. Suggests that the pragmatic legacy Rorty constantly invokes will only be recovered and revitalised when a vision of a pragmatically viable ideal of communal democracy is articulated, textured and justified; this is what Dewey did in his historical context. (JLN)