| In taking this position Giddens comes close to American philosopher Richard Rorty. |
| Quine and Richard Rorty, and later Noam Chomsky, brought analytic philosophy to the fore of American philosophical academia. |
| Rorty thinks that churches should teach that the greatest source of suffering is still, as always, economic inequality, not spiritual or bodily impurity. |
| To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human. |
| Just as Rorty cannot ultimately dispense with either canon or priestcraft, so he cannot quite bring himself to do away with churches either. |
| Perversely, as soon as they take delivery, most owners are expected to ignore these rules anyway and replace the expensive silencer with the original rorty exhaust system. |
