My sense of the holy . . . is bound up with the hope that someday, any millenium now, my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

Richard Rorty

About Richard Rorty

Portrait of Richard Rorty

Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and in contemporary analytic philosophy. Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of...