• Part of the book series (LAPS, volume 31) Abstract Richard Rorty, it has been recently asserted, is the most influential thinker in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy (Haber 1994, p.7). Richard Rorty is also an imperialist. He claims dominion for a new postmodern bourgeois liberalism. According to Rorty, postmodern bourgeois liberalism represents another generation in a genealogy which begins with Kant and then moves through Heidegger, sprouts illegitimate offspring in the likes of Foucault and Derrida, and then comes to rest with the liberal ironist like himself. More than this, Rorty claims dominion for postmodern bourgeois liberalism over a number of other political philosophers including John Rawls and Roberto Unger.

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Richard Rorty and the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth Richard Rorty and the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth Dean Geuras, Professor of Philosophy, Southwest Texas State University Dean Geuras received his M.A. In Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Southwest Texas State University. How should Christians respond to postmodernism? Is it a profound threat that we must refute else it undermine the Christian perspective? Or is it a benign alternative to the more explicitly atheistic philosophies that have dominated twentieth-century thought? I answer that it is not benign, but that, even if Christians make no attempt to refute it, it will destroy itself, and possibly its antireligious philosophical predecessors such as Sartrian existentialism, logical positivism, and Wittgensteinianism. This self-destruction will occur despite the efforts of Richard Rorty, postmodernism’s most gifted defender, who may ultimately do more to destroy the movement that to defend it.