Richard Rorty is a contemporary philosopher of analytic tradition who made a turn against the tradition he stemmed from and against epistemology in the middle of his career. Rorty believes that the epistemological project of attaining knowledge is based on fallacious assumptions of the Cartesian dualism. His seminal work Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature represents a focal point of his critique of the search for knowledge, primacy of hermeneutical understanding over epistemology, and the role of edification as a process of improving society through conversation. His critique of epistemology will be based on a critique of Cartesian dualism. Rorty will argue that there is no neutral matrix which would allow human beings to know the world objectively, which Cartesian dualism saw in mind and mental entities. The conclusion that Rorty draws is that every attempt at achieving knowledge and truth is destined for failure. Instead of search for knowledge, Rorty argues for a search for understanding via conversation, which would lead to the elimination of already nonexistent epistemological problem of knowledge, and to a better society. Rorty used the name »edification« for this process of (mutual) understanding. To prove his point, Rorty calls for hermeneutics, which he sees as a discipline that shares his request for conversation and understanding instead of knowledge. This gives hermeneutics a primacy over epistemology and makes it legible for becoming a fundamental discipline of philosophy. However, a detailed comparison of Rorty’s philosophy and hermeneutics shows that Rorty’s radical rejection of truth represents a significant departure from Gadamer, and that his notion of edification and understanding through conversation does not bring anything new to the hermeneutical tradition. On the other hand, Rorty’s critique of knowledge makes an original attempt of criticizing analytic philosophy with the tools of continental philosophy, i.e. hermeneutics.