Values, Valuations, and Axiological Norms is an excellent work. Skowronski’s arguments, analyses, and insights are new and important. These arguments are not only interesting, but persuasive, and Skowronski offers, besides the well-known approaches, new insights for the readers. This is a major contribution to the overall picture of Richard Rorty, especially in the sense that the author shows main features of Rorty’s neopragmatism—his basic values, the principles of contingency and relativity, re-description, the public-private split, liberal utopia, etc.—from Rorty’s liberal democratic angle.

Alexander Kremer, University of Szeged

Skowronski's volume adds its own distinctive voice to the on-going and growing discussion of Rorty's legacy. Reflecting on Rorty's views on various inter-related issues, such as values, normativity, humanism, democracy, liberalism, literature, and cultural politics, Skowronski does not merely seek to interpret Rorty's position but to philosophize—often critically—with him about these topics of vital human importance in a politically relevant manner.

Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki

In the era of global power of technoscience and political corruption, Skowronski re-reads Rorty in a novel way, focusing on values and norms. He shows how Rortyan pragmatism can serve not only cultural politics but also political humanism. This is a conversation with Rorty rather than an interpretation because the author has his own ideas to present on the Rortyan themes.

Emil Višnovský, Comenius University & Slovak Academy of Sciences

A thoughtful and insightful study of Rorty's philosophy. Skowronski succeeds at presenting a rich critical understanding of this complex thinker.

John Lachs, Vanderbilt University