Habermas engaged in regular correspondence with Richard Rorty and a strong sense of philosophical pragmatism may be felt in his theory ; thought which frequently traverses the boundaries between sociology and philosophy.

It is for this reason that Richard Rorty asks if Derrida should be considered a quasi-transcendental philosopher that operates in the tension between the demands of the empirical and the transcendental.

* Richard Rorty was a prominent interpreter of Derrida's philosophy.

Derrida's thinking has inspired Slavoj Zizek, Richard Rorty, Ernesto Laclau, Judith Butler and many more contemporary theorists developed a deconstructive approach to politics.

* Rorty, Richard, " From Formalism to Poststructuralism ".

* " Deconstructionist Theory " by Richard Rorty

Postmodernists and Post-Structuralists such as Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida have attacked foundationalism on the grounds that the truth of a statement or discourse is only verifiable in accordance with other statements and discourses.

Musgrave criticized Richard Rorty and Postmodernist philosophy in general for confusion of use and mention.

* 2007 – Richard Rorty, American American philosopher ( b. 1931 )

Ultimately, it failed to solve many of the problems with which it was centrally concerned, and after the Second World War, its doctrines increasingly came under attack by thinkers such as Nelson Goodman, Willard Van Orman Quine, J. L. Austin, Peter Strawson, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty.

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* 1931 – Richard Rorty, American academic ( d. 2007 )

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In America, the most famous pragmatist and self-proclaimed postmodernist was Richard Rorty.

Richard Rorty, Kierkegaard, and Wittgenstein challenge the sense of questioning whether our particular concepts are related to the world in an appropriate way, whether we can justify our ways of describing the world as compared with other ways.

* Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1979.

Well-known philosophers such as Karl Jaspers, Leo Strauss, Ahmad Fardid, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Lévinas, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, William E. Connolly, and Jacques Derrida have all analyzed Heidegger's work.

Not all scholars agreed with this negative assessment: Richard Rorty, for example, declared that " book includes more concrete information relevant to Heidegger's relations with the Nazis than anything else available, and it is an excellent antidote to the evasive apologetics that are still being published.

Heidegger's reputation within English-language philosophy has slightly improved in philosophical terms in some part through the efforts of Hubert Dreyfus, Richard Rorty, and a recent generation of analytically oriented phenomenology scholars.

Philosopher Richard Rorty has argued that Foucault's ' archaeology of knowledge ' is fundamentally negative, and thus fails to adequately establish any ' new ' theory of knowledge per se.

Richard Rorty, for example, argued that relativist philosophers believe " that the grounds for choosing between such opinions is less algorithmic than had been thought ," but not that any belief is equally as valid as any other.

Philosopher Richard Rorty understands hope as more than goal setting.

von Wright, Paul Ricoeur, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor ) have ventured to bridge.

The continuing stream of books on Derrida — over 150 titles since 2000 versus about 25 for John Searle and about 40 for Richard Rorty, for example — indicates no abatement in the popularity of deconstruction in relation to other competing trends in Philosophy.

Jean-Luc Nancy, Richard Rorty, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, Rosalind Krauss, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Duncan Kennedy, Gary Peller, Drucilla Cornell, Alan Hunt, Hayden White, and Alun Munslow are some of the authors who have been influenced by deconstruction.

In his 1989 Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Richard Rorty argues that Derrida ( especially in his book, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond ) purposefully uses words that cannot be defined ( e. g. Différance ), and uses previously definable words in contexts diverse enough to make understanding impossible, so that the reader will never be able to contextualize Derrida's literary self.

* After the Demise of the Tradition: Rorty, Critical Theory, and the Fate of Philosophy, 1991, ISBN 0-8133-8044-8

Though Derrida addressed the American Philosophical Association at least on one occasion in 1988, and was highly regarded by some contemporary philosophers like Richard Rorty, Alexander Nehamas, and Stanley Cavell, his work has been regarded by other analytic philosophers, such as John Searle and Willard Van Orman Quine, as pseudophilosophy or sophistry.

), Deconstruction and Pragmatism, with essays by Simon Critchley, Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty, and Derrida.

The Blackwell dictionary of Western philosophy ( 2004 ) defines " Neo-pragmatism " as follows: " A postmodern version of pragmatism developed by the American philosopher Richard Rorty and drawing inspiration from authors such as John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, Wilfrid Sellars, Quine, and Jacques Derrida.

The Blackwell dictionary of Western philosophy ( 2004 ) defines " Neo-pragmatism " as follows: " A postmodern version of pragmatism developed by the American philosopher Richard Rorty and drawing inspiration from authors such as John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, Wilfrid Sellars, Quine, and Jacques Derrida.

Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity ( Verso, 1999 ) is a collection of essays that includes his debate with Richard Rorty, as well as series of essays on Derrida, Levinas, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Luc Nancy.

This " linguistic turn " strategy aims to avoid what Rorty sees as the essentialisms (" truth ," " reality ," " experience ") still extant in classical pragmatism.

* 1995: Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty ISBN 0-86091-453-4

* Rorty, R. ( 1979 ), Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Richard Rorty described Strauss as a particular influence in his early studies at the University of Chicago, where Rorty studied a " classical curriculum " under Strauss .< ref > Ryerson, James.

* “ The Role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle ’ s Ethics ”, Proceedings of the African Classical Associations xv ( 1980 ), 1-14 ; reprinted in Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, ed., Essays on Aristotle ’ s Ethics ( University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1980 ), pp. 359 – 76

*: References in the article are to a reprint of the preceding two papers, as " Aristotle on Friendship ", in Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, Essays on Aristotle's Ethics ( University of California Press, 1980 ) ISBN 0-520-04041-4

" in Giovanna Borradori, The American philosopher: Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, Kuhn ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994 ) 137-152.

* Rorty, R. ( 1979 ), Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

* Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, Essays on Aristotle's Ethics ( University of California Press, 1980 ) ISBN 0-520-04041-4

He received his Ph. D. in 1975 from Princeton University, where his advisor was the American postmodernist Richard Rorty.

He received his bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Political Science from Macalester College and his doctorate in 1969 from Princeton University with a dissertation directed by Richard Rorty.

Rorty and Pragmatism: The Philosopher Responds to His Critics, edited by Herman J. Saatkamp ( Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1995 ).

* ( 2005 ) The Future of Religion, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo, Edited by Santiago Zabala, Columbia University Press, 2005

Essays in Honour of Gianni Vattimo, Edited by Santiago Zabala ( with contributions from U. Eco, C. Taylor, R. Rorty, J-L. Nancy, F. Savater and many others ), Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.