Richard Rorty (1931-2007).(IN MEMORIAM)(In memoriam) The Review of Metaphysics | September 1, 2007| | COPYRIGHT 2007 Philosophy Education Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Richard Rorty was born in New York on October 4, 1931 and died on June 8, 2007 in Palo Alto. He was the son of James and Winifred Rorty. His maternal grandfather was the famous Social Gospel Theologian, Walter Rauschenbush. According to his account in Achieving Our Country (1998), Rorty grew up "on the anti-communist reformist Left in mid-century." "In that circle," Rorty writes, "American patriotism, redistributionist economics, anticommunism, and Deweyean pragmatism went together easily and naturally." At the precocious age of 15 he went to the University of Chicago. He ...

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