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Richard Rorty’s Cheerful Contempt for What Transcends Him

Richard Rorty’s Cheerful Contempt for What Transcends Him
The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 19, 2017. Toward the end of his career, Richard Rorty was a professor at the University of Virginia. Win McNamee/Getty Images
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The deconstructionist impulse comes in a variety of flavors, from bitter to cloyingly sweet, and it can be made to serve a wide range of philosophical outlooks. That is part of what makes it so dangerous.

Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
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Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”
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