Table of Contents: “…Toward philosophy without mirrors -- Introduction: Metaphilosophical difficulties of lingustic philosophy -- Dewey’s metaphysics -- Philosophy and the mirror of nature -- Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism -- Nineteenth-century idealism and twentieth-century textualism -- Conversations with analytic philosophy -- From logic to language to play -- Pragmatism, Davidson, and truth -- Twenty-five years after -- Putnam and the relativist menace -- Analytic and conversational philosophy -- From anti-representationalism -- To political liberalism -- Philosophy as science, as metaphor, and as politics -- Solidarity or objectivity -- The priority of democracy to philosophy -- Freud and moral reflection -- Private irony and liberal hope -- Pragmatism, literature, and democracy -- The humanistic intellectual eleven theses -- Philosophers, novelists, and intercultural comparisons: Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens -- De man and the American cultural left -- Feminism and pragmatism -- Human rights, rationality, and sentimentality -- Looking backwards from the year 2096 -- American national pride Whitman and Dewey -- Redemption from egotism -- Philosophy as cultural politics -- Truth without correspondence to reality -- Ethics without principles -- Justice as a larger loyalty -- Pragmatism as romantic polytheism -- Religion in the public square -- Is cultural recognition a useful concept for leftist politics? …”