In the days leading up to and following the Presidential election, a seemingly prophetic passage from the late philosopher Richard Rorty circulated virally on the Internet. The quote, which was ...

Working-class Americans, he wrote, “will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or jobs from being exported.” Nor will suburban white-collar ...

Richard Rorty, who died on 8 June 2007, was a philosopher whose high reputation was bestowed on him, not by fellow philosophers, but by the many literary scholars who took comfort and inspiration from ...

The sad news of Richard Rorty’s death has prompted reflections from scholars of many different stripes. “Few could get under the skins of philosophers in the way Rorty could,” says Steve Gimbel of ...

Richard Rorty, one of the world's most influential cultural philosophers and a retired comparative literature professor at Stanford University, died Friday at his Palo Alto home from pancreatic cancer ...

Richard Rorty’s death on June 8, at the age of 75, cut short a unique philosophical career. His influence on the intellectual scene of the final quarter of the 20th century can hardly be exaggerated.

SARTWELL ON RORTY....Crispin Sartwell, in an op-ed piece about Richard Rorty, starts out with this: It's hard for non-philosophers to understand how seriously philosophers take their own questions, ...

A philosopher who exerted influence on literature, law, religion, and politics Richard Rorty, the pragmatist philosopher who died this month at the age of 75, was by all accounts a soft-spoken and ...

In your appreciation of Richard Rorty, you applaud what you see as an "Oakeshottian" strain to his political philosophy. But you present this as if it were a last-minute (or at least a last-decade) ...

When Richard Rorty turned 75 last October, no symposia, conferences, or Festschriften marked the occasion. Such academic nods require true-believing disciples. Philosophy as a discipline spawns them ...

Richard Rorty combined scepticism about the truth with a passion for social justice, and his death will make the pursuit of justice harder. It is rare that the death of a stranger brings a stab of ...