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Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher and historian of ideas.Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and as a professor of comparative literature at Stanford ...
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America is a 1998 book by American philosopher Richard Rorty, in which the author differentiates between what he sees as the two sides of the left, a cultural left and a reformist left.
Richard Rorty: Contemporary American Thinkers is a 2012 book on the writings of American philosopher Richard Rorty, written by Ronald A. Kuipers. The release of the book marked Bloomsbury's fifth publication in their Contemporary American Thinkers series. [1]
Rorty proposes that each of us has a set of beliefs whose contingency we more or less ignore, which he dubs our "final vocabulary". [2] One of the strong poet's greatest fears, according to Rorty, is that he will discover that he has been operating within someone else's final vocabulary all along; that he has not "self-created". It is his goal ...
Philosophy and Social Hope is a 1999 book written by philosopher Richard Rorty and published by Penguin.The book is a collection of cultural and political essays intended to reach a wider audience and, like his previous books, it presents Rorty's own version of pragmatism.
Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers: v.4 is a 2007 book by the philosopher Richard Rorty. A compilation of selected philosophical papers written by Rorty between 1997 and 2007, it complements three previous selections of his papers.
Rorty is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amélie Rorty (1932–2020), Belgian-born American philosopher; James Rorty (1890–1973), American radical writer and poet, father of Richard Rorty; Malcolm C. Rorty (1875–1937), American economist; Richard Rorty (1931–2007), American philosopher
In contrast, skeptical philosophers, such as Richard Rorty, have argued that the complex course of recorded history has shown that "to do the right thing is largely a matter of luck" and particularly is due to "being born in a certain place and a certain time." [3]