A brief response to Inga Clendinnen from Richard Rorty

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Read Inga Clendinnen’s essay Fellow Sufferers: History and Imagination

I’m afraid my omission of history was mere thoughtlessness, and not the result of any considered judgment. I agree with pretty much everything Clendinnen says about the utility of history.

Professor Richard Rorty, University of Virginia

In the Australian Humanities Review, see also: Issue 03, September 1996, Response, Rorty, Richard

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