The pragmatism of Richard Rorty has contributed to the resurgence of the debate on the public role of philosophy. Rather than proclaim the end of it, and far from pretending its mere academic reform, Rorty invites a transformation of philosophy by itself. To learn the instrumental nature of ideas, when their focus is on practical questions, is also to collaborate in the transformation of the world. Rorty proposes to abandon the attempt that politics and its goals are guided by philosophy (which would establish the true nature of reality) in favor of a democratic policy, concerned by the real lives of citizens in their contingency. The interviews gathered here for the first time take up a space of two decades (between 1982 and 2001, the latter about September 11) and took place on the occasion of the publication of one of the books of the philosopher or as a result of certain political events . They show the moral interest that guides the pragmatism of Rorty: "My motto is that if we take care of freedom, the truth will take care of itself". The interviews reveal a singular and unexpected Rorty, the least known also by his detractors and critics. Far from authorizing the accusation of ethical frivolity often directed against him, in them Rorty appears involved in the political life of his country from a deeply moral and responsible view of the task that the philosopher must fulfill in the public sphere. At the same time, these texts present an eloquent and concerned thinker. With humor and irony, but without sarcasm, Rorty translates the theories of the great Western philosophers into myths that must be abandoned.