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Many books are good, a few rise to the level of 'important', but very few deserve to be called 'necessary.' This is one of those very rare and truly necessary books. We live in a time Rorty foresaw throughout his career, and his writing offers insight for the years that lie ahead. These essays connect Rorty's hopeful, forward-looking vision with the timeless and deep tradition of Jewish commentary, and with the timely and necessary possibility of prophetic voices that can speak truth to power. Especially in his later writings, Rorty offered a hopeful vision of hospitality instead of hostility, of solidarity in the face of increasing polarization and fearful solitude, and the preaching of mutual flourishing instead of the weaponization of sound bites. Goodson, Stone, and the authors they have assembled offer relevant and timely words of hope exactly when we need them. --David O'Hara, Augustana University Rorty in dialogue with traditions of Jewish prophecy? When lecturing in my Pragmatism and Religion class at the University of Virginia, Professor Rorty was generous with heart and mind--even while wincing at our scripture-based questions. I do not imagine Rorty's students and readers wincing at this exciting collection devised by Goodson and Stone. They would be too intrigued by the juxtapositions: Rorty, prophecy, rabbinic Judaism, and Christianity too? They will be too stimulated by the deep philosophic work that assembles the likes of Jacques Derrida, Martin Buber, C. S. Peirce, Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas, Cornel West, and more into a company of Rortyan societal reformers. They will be too moved by the civilizational urgency of this book at this moment in this time. --Peter Ochs, Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia

"""Many books are good, a few rise to the level of 'important', but very few deserve to be called 'necessary.' This is one of those very rare and truly necessary books. We live in a time Rorty foresaw throughout his career, and his writing offers insight for the years that lie ahead. These essays connect Rorty's hopeful, forward-looking vision with the timeless and deep tradition of Jewish commentary, and with the timely and necessary possibility of prophetic voices that can speak truth to power. Especially in his later writings, Rorty offered a hopeful vision of hospitality instead of hostility, of solidarity in the face of increasing polarization and fearful solitude, and the preaching of mutual flourishing instead of the weaponization of sound bites. Goodson, Stone, and the authors they have assembled offer relevant and timely words of hope exactly when we need them."" ""Rorty in dialogue with traditions of Jewish prophecy? When lecturing in my Pragmatism and Religion class at the University of Virginia, Professor Rorty was generous with heart and mind--even while wincing at our scripture-based questions. I do not imagine Rorty's students and readers wincing at this exciting collection devised by Goodson and Stone. They would be too intrigued by the juxtapositions: Rorty, prophecy, rabbinic Judaism, and Christianity too? They will be too stimulated by the deep philosophic work that assembles the likes of Jacques Derrida, Martin Buber, C. S. Peirce, Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas, Cornel West, and more into a company of Rortyan societal reformers. They will be too moved by the civilizational urgency of this book at this moment in this time."""

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Jacob L. Goodson is associate professor of philosophy at Southwestern College. Brad Elliott Stone is professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University.

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