Richard Rorty, controversial American Post-Modern philosopher, has died. During his long and voluminous publishing career he engendered quite a bit of debate about the nature of philosophy itself and became something of a po-mo hero along the way. Widely criticized, from both the political right and left, Rorty remained to the end staunchly loyal to his historicist, neo-pragmatist and antiessentialist ideals.
Rorty was highly regarded by many within the Critical Theory approach to philosophy and the social sciences and, more widely, amongst devotees of Postmodern thought. As he said in the introduction to his 1979 work “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature“
“The aim of the book is to undermine the reader’s confidence in ‘the mind’ as something about which one should have a ‘philosophical’ view, in ‘knowledge’ as something about which there ought be a ‘theory’ and which has ‘foundations,’ and in ‘philosophy’ as it has been conceived since Kant”
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