NP but Richard Rorty, yet could gloss (some of) visionary Pynchon, yes? (This from a review in LA Review of Books about new collection of lectures)

[Mark Kohut]

“I should like to make it sound attractive by dubbing it ‘American’,” he
writes with his usual dash of irony, “construing it as the idea common to
Emerson and Whitman, the idea of a new, self-creating community, united not
by knowledge of the same truths, but by sharing the same generous,
inclusivist, democratic hopes.”