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In a foreword to Alasdair Maclntyre, the conservative French philosopher Pierre Manent approvingly notes MacIntyre's 50-year-long "steady core of antiliberal anger" but then wryly observes that "the alternatives to liberalism have lost all credibility. Rorty was an anti-foundationalist, while MacIntyre grimly insists that philosophy without metaphysical foundations is the merest fiction. And though it would have been interesting to learn something more about MacIntyre's life - a little 37 gossip adds relish to a biography - Perreau-Saussine does help clarify MacIntyre's arguments, which can be knotty. As a result, Rorty was pretty much a model public intellectual in the 20 years before his death, while MacIntyre may as well have been writing from inside a monastery. [Extracted from the article]