ABSTRACT
Richard Rorty (1982) prophesized: ‘James and Dewey were not only waiting at the end of the dialectical road which analytic philosophy traveled, but are waiting at the end of the road which, for example, Foucault and Deleuze are currently traveling’ (p. xviii). Rorty refers to Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida in the same paragraph. Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze are prototypical postmodernist while Nietzsche and Heidegger are perhaps the most important precursors. If it is the end of the road for postmodernism, then pragmatism could come next.
