New literary history Vol. 39, No. 1 winter 2008

Ralph Cohen
Introduction

Meredith Williams
Contingency, solidarity—irony: for richard rorty

Jürgen Habermas
". . . And to define America, her athletic democracy":

Richard J. Bernstein
Richard Rorty's deep humanism

Jeffrey Stout
Rorty at Princeton

E. D. Hirsch Jr.
Rorty and the priority of democracy to philosophy

Richard Rorty
Texts and lumps

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
The inspirational power of a shy philosopher

Andrzej Szahaj
Richard Rorty: memories

Frank Ankersmit
Rorty and history

Richard Rorty
Philosophy as a kind of writing:

Annette Baier
Can philosophers be patriots?

David Rigsbee
Rorty

David Rigsbee
Wised up

David Rigsbee
Rorty from a poet's view

Günter Leypoldt
Uses of metaphor: richard rorty's literary criticism and the poetics of world-making

Nicholas M. Gaskill
Experience and signs: towards a pragmatist literary criticism