承前*1
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/gordias/20070706/1183703094にて知る。
ユルゲン・ハーバーマスによるローティ追悼文の英訳；
“Philosopher, poet and friend” http://www.signandsight.com/features/1386.html
先ずはローティからe-mailで癌のことを告げられた時のこと；
ハイデガーを読みすぎると癌になる――ここを読んだときは不謹慎ながら大笑い。
I received the news in an email almost exactly a year ago. As so often in recent years, Rorty voiced his resignation at the "war president" Bush, whose policies deeply aggrieved him, the patriot who had always sought to "achieve" his country. After three or four paragraphs of sarcastic analysis came the unexpected sentence: " Alas, I have come down with the same disease that killed Derrida." As if to attenuate the reader's shock, he added in jest that his daughter felt this kind of cancer must come from "reading too much Heidegger."
また、レトリシャンとしてのローティを讃えた部分；
さらに、最後の
Among contemporary philosophers, I know of none who equalled Rorty in confronting his colleagues - and not only them - over the decades with new perspectives, new insights and new formulations. This awe-inspiring creativity owes much to the Romantic spirit of the poet who no longer concealed himself behind the academic philosopher. And it owes much to the unforgettable rhetorical skill and flawless prose of a writer who was always ready to shock readers with unaccustomed strategies of representation, unexpected oppositional concepts and new vocabularies - one of Rorty's favourite terms. Rorty's talent as an essayist spanned the range from Friedrich Schlegel to Surrealism.
を読んだときには涙腺が少し緩んだ。
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."
