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, the eminent public intellectual and Stanford University professor who resuscitated American pragmatism with groundbreaking work that urged philosophers to give up the illusory pursuit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Theoria is an engaged, multidisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal of social and political theory. Published every quarter, its purpose is to address, through academic debate, the many challenges ...

The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary criticism. It seeks to publish articles which offer new readings of familiar works or authors, or which draw critical attention to new or neglected ...