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■ABE Akira March 31, 2011 Greetings of Solidarity: Rorty and Thoughts of Hope Seikatsu Shoin, 328p. ISBN-10: 490369075X　ISBN-13: 9784903690704　2940 [amazon]／[kinokuniya] ※

＊This book is published using subsidies for publication of the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University in academic year 2010.

■Table of Contents

Introduction: Thoughts of Hope

Part I: Considering with Rorty: Examining Rorty's "Political" Thoughts
　Chapter 1: From "Philosophy" to "Politics": The Path to the Turning Point with "Political" Thoughts
　　Introduction
　　1. Dream of Integrating "Justice" and "Reality": Leading to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
　　2. Deconstruction of "Philosophy" and Liberation of "Politics"
　　Notes
　Chapter 2: Introduction to Rorty's "Political" Thoughts: Examining his Theory on "Human Rights"
　　Introduction
　　1. Understanding the Issues of "Human Rights"
　　2. Sympathy as a Counterproposal
　　3. Implication of Rorty's "Human Rights" Theory: Security as the Condition for Sympathy
　　4. The Position / Meaning of Rorty's "Human Rights" Theory
　　Notes
　Chapter 3: Justice by Irony and Solidarity: Study on Rorty's Liberaism
　　Introduction
　　1. Restatement of "Public-Private Distinction": Distinction between Justice and Goodness
　　2. The World as Contingency
　　　2-1. The Contingency of Language and Self
　　　2-2. Fundamental / Existential Aporia of "Philosophy" and "Poem"
　　3. The Structure of Rorty's "Justice" Theory I: The Relationship between Recognition of Contingency and "Avoiding Cruelty"
　　4. The Structure of Rorty's "Justice" Theory II: Universalization of Irony and Solidarity
　　　4-1. Universalization of "Private" Irony
　　　4-2. Change of Solidarity: From "Dialogue" to "Sympathy"
　　5. Summary and Warmup for the Part II
　　Notes

Part II: Beyond Rorty: Critical Succession of Rorty's "Justice" Theory
　Chapter 4: About "Cruelty"
　　Introduction
　　1. Question over the Proposition of "Avoiding Cruelty"
　　　1-1. Fact and Value
　　　1-2. The Reason of Poor Historical Records
　　2. What is "Cruelty"?: Shklar and Rorty
　　　2-1. The Problem of Common Malum Approach
　　　2-2. "Cruelty" by Shklar
　　　2-3. "Cruelty" by Rorty
　　3. Criticism to Rorty
　　4. Evaluation of Criticism to Rorty
　　5. In Order to Pave the Way for the Future while Accepting Difficulties Seriously
　　Notes
　Chapter 5: Rorty's Provocation and Reconsideration of Social Solidarity
　　Introduction
　　1. Rorty's Skepticism on Moral Universalism and its Close Examination
　　　1-1. Rorty's Provocation
　　　1-2. The Point Rorty's Provocation Contains: Issue of "Distance"
　　2. Current Social Solidarity: The Danger of "Impersonal Solidarity"
　　　2-1. Revival of Social Solidarity Theory
　　　2-2. Two Forms of Social Solidarity
　　　2-3. Fluctuation of Stability and Superiority
　　3. Resonance of Rorty's Provocation and "Personal Solidarity"
　　　Notes
　Chapter 6: A Bottleneck on "Sympathy to 'Proximate Others'": Ethics of Care
　　Introduction
　　1. Segmenting the Philosophy of Ethics of Care: Ethics of Favoritism
　　2. Ways of Ethics of Care
　　　2-1. Reason of Favoritism
　　　2-2. Examination of Skepticism on Ethics of Care and Divergence from Universalism
　　3. A Bottleneck of Ubiquity of Care Unit / Network
　　4. A Bottleneck of Expanding Care Recipients
　　5. A Bottleneck of Approval
　　6. Summary and Prospect
　　　Notes
　Conclusion: Repositioning Sympathy: Going Beyond "Distance"
　　Introduction
　　1. Psychological Mechanism of Moral Actions
　　2. Going Back to Hume
　　Notes

In Place of Conclusion: Ethics Named Desire
　Notes

Postscript
Bibliography