June 22, 2007
Remembering Richard Rorty, and the Intellectual Battles He Engendered
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 self-effacing man, but he generated more than his share of scholarly brawls.
"It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that one could not be taken seriously as an intellectual in the 1990s without forming some kind of opinion as to Rorty's views," writes Neil Gross, an assistant professor
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