Rorty postmodern, uns apunts

Richard Rorty, one of the most influential North American philosophers of the last few decades, died on 8 June last. Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Stanford University, he was responsible for notable works such as Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989); Truth, Politics and Post-Modernism (1997); Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America (1998); and Objectivity, Relativism and Truth (l991). Rorty, one of the key figures in the revival of North American pragmatism, was inspired by thinkers such as John Dewey and William James. In this article, Castiñeira explains the broad lines and key insights into the evolution of neopragmatic, post-modern and anti-essentialist thought of one of the 20th and 21st century's most significant thinkers.