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 ...

When Richard Rorty turned 75 last October, no symposia, conferences, or Festschriften marked the occasion. Such academic nods require true-believing disciples. Philosophy as a discipline spawns them ...

Stanford University Professor Richard Rorty, one of the most famous -- and controversial -- philosophers of modern times, will deliver the Department of History's annual Eugene Lunn Lecture at 7:30 ...

In your appreciation of Richard Rorty, you applaud what you see as an "Oakeshottian" strain to his political philosophy. But you present this as if it were a last-minute (or at least a last-decade) ...

On June 8, 2007, American philosopher Richard Rorty died at the age of 75. Rorty is now commonly associated with one of the roster of scare words used to get Americans to vote against their own ...

Richard Rorty, one of the world's most influential cultural philosophers and a retired comparative literature professor at Stanford University, died Friday at his Palo Alto home from pancreatic cancer ...

Richard Rorty, the eminent public intellectual and Stanford University professor who resuscitated American pragmatism with groundbreaking work that urged philosophers to give up the illusory pursuit ...

The noted philosopher Richard Rorty died on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75. During his career, Mr. Rorty held positions at Princeton University, the ...

In the days leading up to and following the Presidential election, a seemingly prophetic passage from the late philosopher Richard Rorty circulated virally on the Internet. The quote, which was ...

In 2004, the American pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty delivered his Page-Barbour lectures under the title Philosophy as Poetry. This title beautifully reflects an important aspect of Rorty’s ...

In the late 1940s, as Richard Rorty was finishing his undergraduate studies and considering a future as a professional philosopher, his parents began to worry about him. This is not surprising.