Stanford University Professor Richard Rorty, one of the most famous -- and controversial -- philosophers of modern times, will deliver the Department of History's annual Eugene Lunn Lecture at 7:30 ...

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, 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 noted philosopher Richard Rorty died on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75. During his career, Mr. Rorty held positions at Princeton University, the ...

Richard Rorty, 75, an intellectual whose often deeply unconventional approach to mainstream philosophic thought brought him wide public recognition as one of the leading thinkers of his era, died June ...

In an era where people are increasingly divided by language, this book draws on the American pragmatist philosopher Richard ...

In 2004, the American pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty delivered his Page-Barbour lectures under the title Philosophy as Poetry. This title beautifully reflects an important aspect of Rorty’s ...

Richard Rorty, the pragmatist philosopher who died last week at the age of 75, was by all accounts a soft-spoken and self-effacing man, but he generated more than his share of scholarly brawls. “It is ...

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: The Making of an American Philosopher, By Neil Gross; University of Chicago Press, 367 pages, $32.50. When my daughters are ready for college, I’ll tell them a story they’ll scarcely ...

Philosopher Richard Rorty sits before his address in Tehran, in June 2004. (Hasan Sarbakhshian / AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...