Introduction to International Symposium on Richard Rorty

Abstract

We introduce the articles in this special issue about Richard Rorty, as an intellectual and a person, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his death. Scholars came together in 2013 in Buenos Aires for a symposium to honor the memory of Rorty in the presence of former students, friends, colleagues, and scholars of his work, from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S.