What Can We Hope For?
Essays on Politics
1st Edition
Published on 10. May 2022
248 pages
978-0-691-21753-6 (ISBN)
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Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was an eminent American pragmatist philosopher and public intellectual. Among his many books are Achieving Our Country, Philosophy and Social Hope, and Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton). W. P. Maleckiis associate professor of literary theory at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. His books include Human Minds and Animal Stories. Chris Voparil teaches philosophy and political theory on the Graduate Faculty of Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, Ohio. His most recent book is Reconstructing Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Classical Pragmatists.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources
- Introduction: The Philosopher and His Country
- Part I. Politics and Philosophy
- 1. Who Are We?
- 2. Democracy and Philosophy
- 3. Dewey and Posner on Pragmatism and Moral Progress
- 4. Rethinking Democracy
- 5. First Projects, Then Principles
- Part II. American Politics
- 6. Does Being an American Give One a Moral Identity?
- 7. Demonizing the Academy
- 8. American Universities and the Hope for Social Justice
- 9. The Intellectuals and the Poor
- 10. Can American Egalitarianism Survive a Globalized Economy?
- 11. Back to Class Politics
- 12. Making the Rich Richer
- 13. Looking Backwards from the Year 2096
- Part III. Global Politics
- 14. The Unpredictable American Empire
- 15. Post-Democracy
- 16. Humiliation or Solidarity?
- 17. Half a Million Blue Helmets?
- 18. A Queasy Agnosticism
- Afterword: Intellectuals and the Millennium
- Notes
- Index
