The corrupter of youth.(Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher)(Book review)

The American Prospect | September 1, 2008| | Copyright

RICHARD RORTY: THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER BY NElL GROSS, University of Chicago Press, 367 pages, $32.50

BY THE LAST YEARS OF THE 20TH century, Richard Rorty was probably the best-known university-based philosopher in the United States. In recent years he has been surpassed in notoriety by the utilitarian ethicist Peter Singer, known for his advocacy of animal rights and the acceptability of euthanizing severely disabled newborns. Rorty, in his time, was accused of murdering truth. He argued the position that there was no standpoint outside of human ...

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