What Can We Hope For? : : Essays on Politics / / Richard Rorty; ed. by Chris Voparil, W. P. Malecki.
Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United StatesRichard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who, almost two decades...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON SOURCES
- INTRODUCTION The Philosopher and His Country
- 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
- 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
- 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