Private Irony and Public Decency: Richard Rorty's New Pragmatism
philosophy should be kept as separate from politics as should religion . . . the attempt to ground political theory in overarching theories of the nature of man or the goal of history has done more harm than good. We should not assume that it is our task, as professors of philosophy, to be the avant-garde of political movements. ... We should think of politics as one of the experimental rather than of the theoretical disciplines.'