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Introduction The first meeting of the Richard Rorty Society was held September 8–10, 2016, at Hamilton College in New York, featuring over 50 participants, including a keynote discussion by Cornel West and Richard Bernstein and another keynote address by Charlene Haddock Seigfried. West and Bernstein acknowledged Rorty’s influence on philosophy—West called him “the greatest writer in American philosophy since William James”—but both also offered criticisms. West’s critique of Rorty was organized around the themes of Marx, Montaigne, and music: Rorty’s anti-authoritarianism led him to reject theory; West and Bernstein argued for its value. West criticized Rorty’s writing style, which he said tends to be free-floating and disembodied; in contrast, he invoked Montaigne, who “lays bare his soul” in his writing about the quotidian and ordinary. Finally, he wondered why Rorty failed to be moved by the music of John Coltrane. Bernstein acknowledged that Coltrane was not really “Rorty’s thing” and that he learned mostly from books, but Bernstein emphasized that Rorty, like Dewey, always tried to grapple with the problems that confront us as Americans and inheritors of the liberal democratic tradition. Cornel West, Bernstein said, was one of Rorty’s chief legacies.And West acknowledged the importance of Rorty’s mentorship in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Pragmatism Brill

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Dieleman, Susan; Janack, Marianne
Contemporary Pragmatism , Volume 14 (3): 6 – Aug 18, 2017
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The first meeting of the Richard Rorty Society was held September 8–10, 2016, at Hamilton College in New York, featuring over 50 participants, including a keynote discussion by Cornel West and Richard Bernstein and another keynote address by Charlene Haddock Seigfried. West and Bernstein acknowledged Rorty’s influence on philosophy—West called him “the greatest writer in American philosophy since William James”—but both also offered criticisms. West’s critique of Rorty was organized around the themes of Marx, Montaigne, and music: Rorty’s anti-authoritarianism led him to reject theory; West and Bernstein argued for its value. West criticized Rorty’s writing style, which he said tends to be free-floating and disembodied; in contrast, he invoked Montaigne, who “lays bare his soul” in his writing about the quotidian and ordinary. Finally, he wondered why Rorty failed to be moved by the music of John Coltrane. Bernstein acknowledged that Coltrane was not really “Rorty’s thing” and that he learned mostly from books, but Bernstein emphasized that Rorty, like Dewey, always tried to grapple with the problems that confront us as Americans and inheritors of the liberal democratic tradition. Cornel West, Bernstein said, was one of Rorty’s chief legacies.And West acknowledged the importance of Rorty’s mentorship in

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