Truth was not his bag: Richard Rorty, 1931-2007.(PHILOSOPHY)(In memoriam)

National Review | July 9, 2007| | Copyright

IF Richard Rorty hadn't existed, it would have been necessary for the academy to invent him. Rorty, who died at 75 on June 8, epitomized a hearty American version of the Teutonic epistemic gloom that has raged like wildfire through the American university from the 1970s to, well, at least to the day before yesterday. When I was in graduate school, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty's declaration of intellectual apostasy, was regarded with awe, wonder, and adulation. Here was a man who had made his philosophical reputation through the careful analysis of ...

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