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Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that argues that that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues. The Practice of Political Theory is an important response to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism.
Clayton Chin (PhD, Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London) is Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He has edited a special issue of Political Studies Review on "Pragmatism and Political Theory" and a special issue of the European Journal of Political Theory on "Continental and Analytical Political Theory: An Insurmountable Divide?" He has also published articles in refereed journals such as Studies in Social and Political Thought, Ethics, Contemporary Pragmatism, and The European Legacy. This is his first book.AllenAmy:
Amy Allen (PhD, Philosophy, Northwestern) is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and head of the Philosophy Department at the Pennsylvania State University. Her publications include The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia, 2016) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (Columbia, 2007). She is also the editor of the Columbia series New Directions in Critical Theory. She specializes in critical social theory, feminist theory, and 20th-century continental philosophy.Clayton Chin is lecturer in political theory at the University of Melbourne.
Melvin Rogers, author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy:The Practice of Political Theory seeks to think critically about the political-philosophical contribution of Richard Rorty. Chin rightly attends to the limitations and untapped possibilities of Rorty’s work, understood as a contribution to 'cultural politics,' and therefore aims to undercut those criticisms of Rorty’s work that downplay his substantive contributions to political-philosophical thinking. In doing so, the book reads Rorty as helping us side-step debates around foundationalism and justification in political theorizing in favor of a situated mode of thinking that does not dispense with normative assessment.
Colin Koopman, author of Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty:Richard Rorty stirred his theoretical milieu by combining postfoundational philosophy with a commitment to traditional liberalism. His provocation remains poignant in our current moment, when continental-inflected postfoundational thought finds itself tarrying again with materialism and ontology to save its political radicalism. Clayton Chin’s compelling and important book shows how Rorty’s thought offers an inclusive ethos for pluralistic democracies, and without pretending that unifying philosophical theory can do for us what only political activity can accomplish.
William E. Connolly, author of Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy Under Trumpism:Richard Rorty, says Clayton Chin, was first deployed as a foil by critical theory, then rejected, and finally ignored. It is time now to reinvent Rorty, paying special attention to his later work in relation to other traditions. This is a thoughtful, timely, and closely articulated study. It commands close attention from those who will embrace it and those who may contest some of its claims.
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