Only there is more that I should like them to say. Like Mondrian's asymmetry or Cy Twombly's calligraphy , his stories balance precariously between deep play with the unconscious and tedious reserve. Rorty's self-conscious liberalism tilts him toward propriety. Rorty and Fraser are both right. Utopias matter a great deal, because they fulfill the inconsistent promises made by real life, but they remain fictions.
Rights are crucial, but they earn their force from wrongs.
Richard Rorty's lecture appeared in the Spring 1992 issue of The Michigan Quarterly Review .