"Nothing is sacred to Rorty the ironist. Asked at the end of his life about the 'holy', the strict atheist answered with words reminiscent of the young Hegel: 'My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law."

"Truth cannot be out there—cannot exist independently of the human mind—because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Only descriptions of the world can be true or false. The world on its own—unaided by the describing activities of humans—cannot.”(5)

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Contingency, irony, and solidarity

Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth

Essays on Heidegger and Others

Achieving Our Country

Rorty and His Critics

• Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. ISBN
• Consequences of Pragmatism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982. ISBN
• Philosophy in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. (co-editor)
• Contingency, irony, and solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN
• Objectivity, Relativism and Truth: Philosophical Papers I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN
• Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN
• Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. ISBN
• Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN
• Philosophy and Social Hope. New York: Penguin, 2000. ISBN
• Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2002. ISBN
• The Future of Religion with Gianni Vattimo Ed. Santiago Zabala. Columbia: Columbia University Press, 2005. ISBN
• Philosophical Papers IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Books

• The domestication of Derrida: Rorty, pragmatism and deconstruction / Lorenzo Fabbri., 2008
• Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher / Neil Gross, 2008
• Richard Rorty: Pragmatism and Political Liberalism / Michael Bacon., 2007
• Richard Rorty: politics and vision / Christopher Voparil., 2006
• Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern thinkers : a hermeneutics of cross-cultural understanding / Wei Zhang., 2006
• Richard Rorty: his philosophy under discussion / Andreas Vieth., 2005
• The concept of Rortyan Christian ironism / Odom, Barton Page., 2005
• The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagement between Analytic and Continental Thought / Eds. William Egginton and Mike Sandbothe., 2005
• Richard Rorty / Charles B Guignon., 2003
• Between Rorty and MacIntyre: A Kierkegaardian account of irony and moral commitment / Frazier, Bradley., 2003
• Richard Rorty's American faith / Taub, Gad Shmuel., 2003
• The ethical ironist: Kierkegaard, Rorty, and the educational quest / Rohrer, Patricia Jean., 2003
• Doing philosophy as a way to individuation: Reading Rorty and Cavell / Kwak, Duck-Joo., 2003
• Richard Rorty / Alan R Malachowski., 2002
• Richard Rorty: critical dialogues / Matthew Festenstein., 2001
• Richard Rorty: education, philosophy, and politics / Michael Peters., 2001
• Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism / Judd Owen., 2001
• Rorty and his critics / Robert Brandom., 2000
• On Rorty / Richard Rumana., 2000
• Philosophy and freedom : Derrida, Rorty, Habermas, Foucault / John McCumber., 2000
• A pragmatist's progress?: Richard Rorty and American intellectual history / John Pettegrew., 2000
• Problems of the modern self: Reflections on Rorty, Taylor, Nietzsche, and Foucault / Dudrick, David Francis., 2000
• The last conceptual revolution: a critique of Richard Rorty's political philosophy / Eric Gander., 1999
• Richard Rorty's politics: liberalism at the end of the American century/Markar Melkonian., 1999
• Cultural otherness : correspondence with Richard Rorty / Anindita Niyogi Balslev., 1999
• The work of friendship : Rorty, his critics, and the project of solidarity / Dianne Rothleder., 1999
• Pragmatism and political theory : from Dewey to Rorty / Matthew Festenstein., 1997
• Debating the state of philosophy: Habermas, Rorty, and Kolakowski / Józef Niznik., 1996
• For the love of perfection : Richard Rorty and liberal education / René Vincente Arcilla., 1995
• Rorty & pragmatism: the philosopher responds to his critics / Herman J Saatkamp., 1995
• Richard Rorty : prophet and poet of the new pragmatism / David L Hall., 1994
• Without God or his doubles : realism, relativism, and Rorty / D Vaden House., 1994
• Beyond postmodern politics : Lyotard, Rorty, Foucault / Honi Fern Haber., 1994
• After the demise of the tradition : Rorty, critical theory, and the fate of philosophy/ Kai Nielsen., 1991
• Reading Rorty: critical responses to Philosophy and the mirror of nature (and beyond) / Alan R Malachowski., 1990
• Rorty's humanistic pragmatism : philosophy democratized / Konstantin Kolenda., 1990
• Pragmatist Aesthetics / Richard Shusterman. Rowman Littlefield 2000. [esp. Chapter 9: 236-261)

Articles

• Rorty R / "The Fire of Life" POETRY / NOV 2007 [available online]

• Lynch S / On Richard Rorty's use of the distinction between the private and the public

• Dombrowski DA / Rorty versus Hartshorne, or, poetry versus metaphysics (Richard Rorty, Charles Hartshorne)

• Arriaga M / Richard Rorty's anti-foundationalism and traditional philosophy's claim of social relevance

• Barthold LS / How hermeneutical is he? A gadamerian analysis of Richard Rorty

• Stieb JA / Rorty on realism and constructivism

• Flaherty J / Rorty, religious beliefs, and pragmatism

• Smith NH / Rorty on religion and hope

• Santos RJ / Richard Rorty's philosophy of social hope

• Miller CB / Rorty and moral relativism

• Abrams JJ / Aesthetics of self-fashioning and cosmopolitanism - Foucault and Rorty on the art of living

• Margolis J / Dewey's and Rorty's opposed pragmatisms

• Talisse RB / A pragmatist critique of Richard Rorty's hopeless politics

• Picardi E / Rorty, Sorge and truth

• McDermid DJ / Does epistemology rest on a mistake? Understanding Rorty on scepticism

• Owens J / The obligations of irony: Rorty on irony, autonomy, and contingency

• Margolis J / Richard Rorty: Philosophy by other means

• Kompridis N / So we need something else for reason to mean

• Cohen AJ / On Universalism: Commuitarians, Rorty, and ('Objectivist') 'liberal metaphysicians'

• Rorty R / Response to Randall Peerenboom ('Rorty and the China Challenge')

• Peerenboom R / The limits of irony: Rorty and the China challenge

• Stow, S. / The Return of Charles Kinbote: Nabokov on Rorty

Essays and Articles by Rorty

• Rorty's thoughts on dying, Poetry magazine, November 2007.
• Rorty essay, possibly his last published, "A rejoinder to Béla Egyed," March 2007, reprinted in "Kritika & Kontext," May 2007.
• Rorty review of Bernard Williams's Truth and Truthfulness, LRB, Oct. 31, 2002.
• Rorty essays published in Dissent (magazine)
• Rorty essay, "Democracy and philosophy", originally delivered April 2004, in Tehran, reprinted in Kritika & Kontext, May 2007.
• Rorty on President Clinton's legacy, New York Times op-ed, March 6, 2000.
• Rorty essay, "Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism", 1998.
• Rorty on Oliver North, New York Times op-ed, October 13, 1994.
• Rorty essay, "Feminism and Pragmatism", the Tanner Lecture on Human Values, December 7, 1990.

Book Reviews by Rorty

• Rorty book reviews published at Notre Dame Philosophical Review.
• Rorty on Freud, NYT Book Review, October 22, 2000.
• Rorty on papal history, NYT Book Review, June 11, 2000.
• Rorty review of Marc Hauser's Moral Minds, NYT Book Review, Aug. 27, 2006.
• Rorty review of Scott Soames's history of analytic philosophy, London Review of Books, Jan. 20, 2005.
• Rorty disagrees with Andrew Delbanco, NYT Book Review, Nov. 7, 1999.

Interviews

• Rorty audio, informative interview by Prof. Robert P. Harrison, Nov. 22, 2005.
• Rorty interview, Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies, conducted by Derek Nystrom & Kent Puckett, Prickly Paradigm Press, Sept. 1998.
• Rorty interview, The Atlantic Monthly, April 23, 1998.
• Rorty interview, Flash Art Magazine, Nov/Dec. 1993.

Obituaries, Eulogies and Memorials

• Rorty Memorial Lecture by Jürgen Habermas, Stanford University, Nov. 2, 2007.
• Jürgen Habermas's obituary for Richard Rorty, signandsight.com, June 12, 2007.
• Dan Adleman's obituary for Richard Rorty, June 2007.
• Danny Postel's obituary for Richard Rorty in New Humanist, July/August 2007.
• Rorty eulogized by Richard Posner, Brian Eno, Mark Edmundson, Jürgen Habermas, Daniel Dennett, Stanley Fish, David Bromwich, Simon Blackburn, Morris Dickstein & others, Slate Magazine, June 18, 2007.
• "The Inspiring Power of the Shy Thinker: Richard Rorty" by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, TELOS, June 13, 2007.
• Richard Rorty at Princeton: Personal Recollections by Raymond Geuss in Arion, Winter 2008
• Rereading Rorty by Albrecht Wellmer in Krisis , 2008, 2