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He once gave a series of three lectures, which I think correspond pretty much to the essays on contingency, friendship, solidarity, in a collection from 1989 or so. His analytic, former students hated him, and when introducing him here said, “when I studied with Richard Rorty at Columbia University, he still knew what an argument was.” It was the most arrogant way to present a guest. And Rorty just completely ignored this.
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Mesbahian, H., Norris, T. (2017). Rorty and Neopragmatism. In: Dieter Misgeld. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-932-4_6
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