Richard Rorty

Friends and other philosophers talk about American Philosopher Richard Rorty who recently died with clips from Rorty himself. From a longer film called "American Philosopher" by Phillip McReynolds.

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[mandispangler]

a great hero of philosophical disobedience is now absent from view. it is so rare in the academia of philosophy to find such a beautifully fearless voice. he will be desperately missed by those of us who refuse to bow down to analytical fundamentalism. grief is still strongly felt.

[manwaring]

So, you've equated Rorty's views with Rousseau and then Rousseu's views with Marx and then Marx's views with Hitler and then you expect us to you for something other than an uneducated lunatic?

Sir, books are good for you.

[Dylvente]

@MrCouchTuber It's a disease, "clips from Rorty himself," or an error in sentence construction. :-)

[phillipmcreynolds]

You can see the whole thing at vimeo.com channels americanphilosopher

[jupiterostselo]

@ursamajor1977:

...V.important comment. I think that philosophy's main task in the 21st century is to explain why it does what it does, and further why it even still EXISTS in the context of 'late capitalism'. As you say, this is primarily a problem for educators and other interested parties - not academia. Rorty makes the case that this is a matter of moving beyond the gridlock of essentialism and working to make society more 'rich and interesting than in the past'. Amen to that.

[hauntmeinharmony]

Richard Rorty sucks.

[MrCouchTuber]

Richard Rorty recently died with clips from Rorty himself?

[soursourapples]

haha

[TheOnlyFriday]

Wow. For a clip that's really just a bunch of guys talking to camera, this really kind of holds the interest.

[uglybunny]

Lol, I had to look back at the rest of the convo after reading this comment.

[DirzoRasec]

Although the comment below by "dogx15" got two thumbs down he is partially correct. He is alluding to books of architecture where the word postmodern was used. These books came about in the 60's & 70's.

The word "postmodern" first appeared around the 1870's. However, in the way its used to day in relation to philosophy it from the late 60's.