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Richard Rorty was a philosopher who attempted to bring together the tradition of American pragmatism and that of post-Nietzschean French and German philosophy.
Derek Nystrom is an associate professor of English at McGill University, where he teaches film and cultural studies. His book, Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men: Class in 1970s American Cinema (New York: Oxford UP, 2009), was named as a finalist for the 2010 Richard Wall Memorial Award by the Theatre Library Association. His essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, Postmodern Culture, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies.
Kent Puckett is Ida May and William J. Eggers Jr. Chair of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Oxford University Press, 2008), Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2016), War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939–1945 (Fordham University Press, 2017), and The Electoral Imagination: Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2022).