Schooled in analytic philosophy, his approach increasingly diverged from the mainstream having more in common with the American philosopher Richard Rorty and the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
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Lawson's subsequent work can be seen as a response to the writings of Rorty and Derrida, and an attempt to move forward the post-analytic project.
Amélie Rorty, Findlay Professor of Philosophy, Boston University.
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Richard Rorty (1931 – 2007), Kenan Professor of Humanities, University of Virginia.
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Rorty singles out Snow Crash and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead as modern works that serve as exemplars of the second of two predominant narratives, a rejection of national pride with "tones either of self-mockery or of self-disgust" (the other narrative is a "simple-minded militaristic chauvinism").
Neil Gross (2008), Richard Rorty, The Making of an American Philosopher.
Neopragmatists, particularly Rorty and Putnam, draw on the ideas of classical pragmatists such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey.