I see postmodernism as the reopening of a battle which the Socrates-Plato-
Aristotle team won over the Thrasymacian team in ancient Greece. This victory was the triumph of the discpline of logic over that of rhetoric.  Part of the spoils of the victory was the opportunity to write a history that spoke of the Socrates-
Plato-Aristotle team as initiating the "birth of philosophy."  Ever since, "philosophy" has been what the followers of Socrates-Plato-and Aristotle have been doing.  It is clear they were the victors, because the term for the Thrasymacian team has became an insulting word.  The Thrasymacians were the sophists, and it is insulting today to be called a "sophist."

I see Rorty as a neo-sophist being rejected by folks emersed in a tradition which really can be thought of as an endless conversation based on adding more and more elaborate footnotes to Plato.  English departments in universities are very rapidly becoming the site of a sort of government-in-exile of present day Sophistic philosophers. An alternative sophistic philosophy seems to be growing out of the study of literature and the various traditions of qualitative research, and it seems to be becoming the dominant philosophy in the culture at large.  It seems to be happening slowly but at a steady pace.

This could create a situation where philosophy departments continue to use the word philosophy to mean what Plato meant by it while most other domains of western culture see a steady increase in the influence of a different kind of thinking, a kind of thinking that kind of thinking not based on either/or
excluded middle logic at all. The Department . of Philosophy could become the site of Logic's last stand as the government-in-exile takes over everyplace else. 

Then again, maybe not.