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On Justice and Character: Liberalism and Self-Realization in Rorty and Mill
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS OF RORTY TEXTS
AOC
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
CIS
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1989).
CP
Consequences of Pragmatism (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis
Press, 1982).
EHO
Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2 (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
ORT
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1 (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
PMN
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1979).
PSH
Philosophy and Social Hope (New York: Penguin Books, 1999).
TP
Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 3 (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1998).
NOTES
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See Walt Whitman, "Democratic Vistas," in The Portable Whitman, ed. Mark Van Doren (New
York: Penguin Books, 1973), pp. 317-384; John Dewey, "I Believe," in The Later Works: 1925-1953, ed. Jo Ann Boydston. (Carbondale, Il.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981-90), Vol. 14, p. 92. This essay revises certain statements made by Dewey in the 1930 essay "What I Believe" nine years earlier. Interestingly, Stanley Cavell has offered a related formulation: “the human individual meant to be created and preserved in a democracy is apt to be undone by it.” Here the instability and fragility of democratic individuality is understood in an Emersonian fashion as an invitation to further self-articulation rather than a shortcoming. See his Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism
(Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1989), p. 57.
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While I would agree that in some sense “an excess of liberalism has undone democratic
institutions,” my claim is not that democracy should entail "the participation of all of the people in at least some aspects of self-government.” See Benjamin R. Barber, Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), p. xix. Nor is it that democratic politics requires publicly realized selves. What democracy does require, in my view, is something more than self-interest or an altruistic concern for others to adequately motivate the quest for social justice. Democracy need not fear individual creative energies; it may indeed even derive some benefit from them. That liberalism can be nudged out of its anxiety-rooted frame and be made to see individual creative energies as less of a threat to its
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS OF RORTY TEXTS
AOC
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
CIS
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1989).
CP
Consequences of Pragmatism (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis
Press, 1982).
EHO
Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2 (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
ORT
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1 (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
PMN
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1979).
PSH
Philosophy and Social Hope (New York: Penguin Books, 1999).
TP
Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 3 (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1998).
NOTES
1
See Walt Whitman, "Democratic Vistas," in The Portable Whitman, ed. Mark Van Doren (New
York: Penguin Books, 1973), pp. 317-384; John Dewey, "I Believe," in The Later Works: 1925-
1953, ed. Jo Ann Boydston. (Carbondale, Il.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981-90), Vol.
14, p. 92. This essay revises certain statements made by Dewey in the 1930 essay "What I
Believe" nine years earlier. Interestingly, Stanley Cavell has offered a related formulation: “the
human individual meant to be created and preserved in a democracy is apt to be undone by it.”
Here the instability and fragility of democratic individuality is understood in an Emersonian
fashion as an invitation to further self-articulation rather than a shortcoming. See his Conditions
Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism
(Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1989), p. 57.
2
While I would agree that in some sense “an excess of liberalism has undone democratic
institutions,” my claim is not that democracy should entail "the participation of all of the people
in at least some aspects of self-government.” See Benjamin R. Barber, Strong Democracy:
Participatory Politics for a New Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), p. xix.
Nor is it that democratic politics requires publicly realized selves. What democracy does require,
in my view, is something more than self-interest or an altruistic concern for others to adequately
motivate the quest for social justice. Democracy need not fear individual creative energies; it
may indeed even derive some benefit from them. That liberalism can be nudged out of its
anxiety-rooted frame and be made to see individual creative energies as less of a threat to its
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