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A lot of what passes as religion in America today only helps perpetuate false narratives people create for themselves about ...
Philosopher Richard Rorty can help us understand the delicate balance between being a good patriot and a bad patriot. Canadians are more patriotic than ever amid Trump’s trade war — but it’s ...
Philosopher Richard Rorty predicted that someone like Trump might bring back public cruelty. by Zack Beauchamp. Feb 12, 2025, 12:00 PM UTC. Elon ...
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 ...
In 1998, the American philosopher Richard Rorty predicted dark days for democracy and the rise of a Trump-like figure in the USA. This week, with the publication of a new collection of Rorty's ...
It’s a surprisingly simple message from so sophisticated a philosopher as Rorty. But to judge by the state of the world, it’s not a superfluous one. 35 Submit a correction ...
Jordi Graupera on the American philosopher Richard Bernstein, his teaching career, and his friendship with Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty.
Twenty-five years ago, the philosopher Richard Rorty accomplished something many writers aspire to but few ever pull off: he predicted the future. Toward the end of his 1998 book Achieving Our Country ...
The American philosopher Richard Rorty died in 2007, but in 2016 he achieved a different kind of celebrity for having foreseen the election of Donald Trump.In a book called Achieving Our Country, ...
The list of contributors—Rorty, Habermas, Taylor, Heller, Jacques Derrida, Thomas McCarthy, Geoffrey Hartman, Carol Bernstein, Yirmiyahu and Shoshana Yovel, Joel Whitebook, Judith Friedlander, and ...