He once gave a series of three lectures, which I think correspond pretty much to the essays on contingency, friendship, solidarity, in a collection from 1989 or so. His analytic, former students hated him, and when introducing him here said, "when I studied with Richard Rorty at Columbia University, he still knew what an argument was." It was the most arrogant way to present a guest. And Rorty just completely ignored this.