I stopped by Stanford for a memorial lecture by Jürgen Habermas on Richard Rorty last night. He was pretty difficult to understand, but I did catch this line, where it sounds like he was going to launch a critique.
Yet, for all our reverence for the character of a friend, we must not fail to mention the pretensions of the philosophical claims he championed.
Richard Rorty had in mind nothing less than to foster a culture that liberated itself from what he saw as the conceptual obsessions of Greek philosophy—and a fetishism of science that sprouted from the furrows of that metaphysics.
Link to the first part of the Habermas lecture
