This is one part of a series of interviews with philosophers, writers, scientist and other kinds of intellectuals about the relationship between beauty and consolation. In this part, part 23, the famous American pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty is being interviewed.

Currently 09/06/06 only part 23 is available by DVD rip. Most of the other parts are forthcoming and will only be available in VHS rip. This is because I've recently bought the VHS box of this series, unfortunately not all videotapes were available anymore. Because I really wanted to have the interview with Richard Rorty, one of the parts which isn’t available in the VHS box, I ordered a manual made copy by the VPRO (the Dutch broadcasting company which made the series ‘Of Beauty and Consolation’) and the VPRO just put it on a blank DVD.

I don’t know exactly when I’m going to release the other parts, but if you are interested you can let me know at pieterkeesdejong [at] gmail.com, the knowledge that more people are interested may speed up the process.

Most of the interviews are being conducted in English. Because they were only meant for Dutch audience, but by this release I would like to share it with the entire world, all the in English conducted interviews are subtitled in Dutch. On al VHS versions and also on this DVD version of the interview the Dutch subtitles are hard coded so I can’t get rid of them, but most of the interviews are in English so that shouldn’t be much of a problem. If a specific interview is conducted in Dutch I may make subtitles for them myself, but only if there are enough people interested.

Note for this specific release of part 23: Unfortunately the video shakes a bit, this was also a problem on the original DVD I received from the VPRO. This shouldn't be the problem with the forthcoming VHS releases.

Dutch TV (VPRO)
presenter: Wim Kayzer