Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself

Richard Rorty is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of three volumes of Philosophical Papers (1991-1998), and Philosophy and Social Hope (1999). Eduardo Mendieta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy: Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics (2002).

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsiii Introduction @tocca:Eduardo Mendietaiii @toc2:1The Quest for Uncertainty: Richard Rorty's Pilgrimage000 2From Philosophy to Postphilosophy000 3Postphilosophical Politics000 4After Philosophy, Democracy000 5Toward a Postmetaphysical Culture000 6There is a Crisis Coming: A Conversation with Richard Rorty000 7Persuasion is a Good Thing000 8On Philosophy and Politics000 9The Best Can Be an Enemy of the Better000 10On September 11, 2001000 11Worlds or Words Apart? The Consequences of Pragmatism for Literary Studies000 12Biography and Philosophy000 @toc4:Bibliography of Richard Rorty's Writings000 Sources000

"The United States has produced a great many idiosyncratic champions of human freedom, Walt Whitman and William James above all. It is time to recognize Rorty's place in that lineage."—Dissent