Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue on Rorty’s Politics

The present issue of Contemporary Pragmatism, which is devoted to Rorty's politics, originated in the 2023 Meeting of the Richard Rorty Society (rrs) at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.This meeting, which was hosted by Nalliely Hernndez Cornejo, was a historic event given that, after previous meetings of the rrs in 2016 at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and in 2019 at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA, it marked the first time that the rrs held its conference outside the United States.This was a powerful testament to the deep and on-going impact that Richard Rorty's philosophical thought continues to have in a variety of disciplines across the globe.In addition to a keynote delivered by Ramn del Castillo and a moving homage to the intellectual relationship between Richard Rorty and Richard Bernstein jointly offered by Mara Pa Lara and Christopher Voparil, the meeting featured an impressive array of scholars coming from the