biography
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Rorty, Richard (McKay)
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in New York City, USA. He studied at Chicago and Yale universities, and taught at Yale, Wellesley College, and Princeton, before becoming professor of humanities at Virginia University from 1982. In 1979 he published the controversial Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, which mounted a forceful and dramatic attack on the foundationalist, metaphysical aspirations of traditional philosophy. He later became influential in literary criticism, social theory, and intellectual history generally, with works such as Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (1988). |
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