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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

After Trump’s election, Rorty’s prophecy of social collapse went viral. His final book is perhaps the clearest account of his political thinking.

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 ...

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 ...

Charlottesville, Va. -- MOST OF us, despite the outrage we may feel about governmental cowardice or corruption, and despite our despair over what is being done to the weakest and ...