<< JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
> > you hace to rember I am alsoa student of Rorty's
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> explain to me the fascination with rorty - care to elaborate?
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> On what, exactly?
well, on why someone takes rorty seriously, as a theorist.
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Because he's smart and interesting is cukturally important? If I were you I'd look at Norman Geras Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind, a very good critique of Rorty by a sharp as a razor leftist who doesn't suffer fools gladly, but doesn't treat Rorty as a fool and does think he was worth writing a book about.
--jks