Trotsky and the Wild Orchids
Sign in | Create an account PhilPapers PhilPeople PhilArchive PhilEvents PhilJobs New Topics Journals Submit material More Download from dx.doi.org More download options Trotsky and the Wild Orchids Richard Rorty Common Knowledge 28 (3):366-379 (2022) Copy BIBTEX Abstract Among Rorty's most admired essays, and probably his most autobiographical, “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids” made its first appearance as a column in Common Knowledge during the journal's inaugural year. Here it is reprinted, thirty years later, in a symposium called “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?” He explains in this essay that, as a child, he loved things that would seem to others contradictory, for example the Trotskian socialism to which his family was committed and the wild orchids that he would search for in the local mountains. Finding his own way between what appeared to others contrary kinds of demand or appeal, he never settled, as a philosopher and public intellectual, on syntheses that made good se
Sign in | Create an account PhilPapers PhilPeople PhilArchive PhilEvents PhilJobs New Topics Journals Submit material More Download from dx.doi.org More download options Trotsky and the Wild Orchids Richard Rorty Common Knowledge 28 (3):366-379 (2022) Copy BIBTEX Abstract Among Rorty's most admired essays, and probably his most autobiographical, “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids” made its first appearance as a column in Common Knowledge during the journal's inaugural year. Here it is reprinted, thirty years later, in a symposium called “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?” He explains in this
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