In The Practice of Political Theory, Clayton Chin puts Richard Rorty’s pragmatism in dialogue with a range of contemporary political theorists, particularly focusing on how his notion of cultural politics can speak to the ontological turn in political theory. This article focuses on Chin’s claim that Rorty’s cultural politics provides an ethos of inclusive and tolerant political engagement. After exploring the basis for Chin’s interpretation, it identifies three tensions in this ethos, in relation to character of its demandingness, the fissure between ethnocentric and egalitarian engagement, and the relationship of this ethos to the virtues and procedures of democratic citizenship.

在《政治理论的实践》一书中，Clayton Chin 将理查德·罗蒂的实用主义置于与一系列当代政治理论家的对话中，特别关注他的文化政治观如何与政治理论的本体论转向对话。本文重点讨论 Chin 的主张，即罗蒂的文化政治提供了一种包容和宽容的政治参与精神。在探索了 Chin 解释的基础之后，它确定了这种精神中的三个张力，涉及其要求的特征、种族中心主义和平等参与之间的裂痕，以及这种精神与民主公民的美德和程序的关系。