American philosopher who, in the mid-1960s at Princeton, was Cameron's preceptor — teaching Sartre, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein years before he was famous for them, while still working as an analytic philosopher. One of the "two professors who became more famous than McLuhan."
Across the dialogues
Cameron's Princeton preceptor — the analytic questioning that echoes the Cambridge training behind McLuhan
Cameron studied Sartre, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein under Rorty in the mid-1960s — subjects Rorty became famous for only much later, while still an analytic philosopher.
"He was known as an analytic philosopher, but I had him for courses on Sartre and Nietzsche and Wittgenstein and all sorts of stuff that Rorty became known for only a decade or two later."
Cameron's Princeton teachers, Rorty and Kuhn, both became more famous than McLuhan.
"you were a student of two professors who, you could say, became more famous than McLuhan."
Rorty's preceptorial method — assigned papers met with sharp questioning — was the analytic discipline Cameron trained in.
"I did all kinds of papers for Rorty."
Connections
Rorty was Cameron's Princeton preceptor in the mid-1960s — for Sartre, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein, years before he became famous for them.
Among the subjects Rorty taught the undergraduate Cameron was Nietzsche — then still outside his public reputation.