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| richard rorty achieving our country: Achieving Our Country Richard Rorty, 1999 One of America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers such as Walt Whitman and John Dewey. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Achieving Our Country Richard Rorty, 1997 |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Philosophy and Social Hope Richard Rorty, 1999-08-26 Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent essays, articles and lectures, Rorty gives a stimulating summary of his central philosophical beliefs and how they relate to his political hopes; he also offers some challenging insights into contemporary America, justice, education and love. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity Richard Rorty, 1989-02-24 In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Philosophy as Poetry Richard Rorty, 2016-12-07 Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic schools as vocabularies rather than as indispensable paths to truth. But his work displays a profound awareness of philosophical tradition and an urgent concern for how we create a society. As Michael Bérubé writes in his introduction to this new volume, Rorty looked upon philosophy as a creative enterprise of dreaming up new and more humane ways to live. Drawn from Rorty’s acclaimed 2004 Page-Barbour lectures, Philosophy as Poetry distills many of the central ideas in his work. Rorty begins by addressing poetry and philosophy, which are often seen as contradictory pursuits. He offers a view of philosophy as a poem, beginning with the ancient Greeks and rewritten by succeeding generations of philosophers seeking to improve it. He goes on to examine analytic philosophy and the rejection by some philosophers, notably Wittgenstein, of the notion of philosophical problems that have solutions. The book concludes with an invigorating suspension of intellectual borders as Rorty focuses on the romantic tradition and relates it to philosophic thought. This book makes an ideal starting place for anyone looking for an introduction to Rorty’s thought and his contribution to our sense of an American pragmatism, as well as an understanding of his influence and the controversy that attended his work. Page-Barbour Lectures |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism Richard Rorty, 2021-08-17 The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views. Richard RortyÕs Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of AmericaÕs foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate decades ago in his groundbreaking Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Marking a new stage in the evolution of his thought, RortyÕs final masterwork identifies anti-authoritarianism as the principal impulse and virtue of pragmatism. Anti-authoritarianism, on this view, means acknowledging that our cultural inheritance is always open to revision because no authority exists to ascertain the truth, once and for all. If we cannot rely on the unshakable certainties of God or nature, then all we have left to go onÑand argue withÑare the opinions and ideas of our fellow humans. The test of these ideas, Rorty suggests, is relatively simple: Do they work? Do they produce the peace, freedom, and happiness we desire? To achieve this enlightened pragmatism is not easy, though. Pragmatism demands trust. Pragmatism demands that we think and care about what others think and care about, which further requires that we account for othersÕ doubts of and objections to our own beliefs. After all, our own beliefs are as contestable as anyone elseÕs. A supple mind who draws on theorists from John Stuart Mill to Annette Baier, Rorty nonetheless is always an apostle of the concrete. No book offers a more accessible account of RortyÕs utopia of pragmatism, just as no philosopher has more eloquently challenged the hidebound traditions arrayed against the goals of social justice. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty Giancarlo Marchetti, 2021-11-04 This book features fourteen original essays that critically engage the philosophy of Richard Rorty, with an emphasis on his ethics, epistemology, and politics. Inspired by James’ and Dewey’s pragmatism, Rorty urged us to rethink the role of science and truth with a liberal-democratic vision of politics. In doing so, he criticized philosophy as a sheer scholastic endeavor and put it back in touch with our most pressing cultural and human needs. The essays in this volume employ the conceptual tools and argumentative techniques of analytic philosophy and pragmatism and demonstrate the relevance of Rorty’s thought to the most urgent questions of our time. They touch on a number of topics, including but not limited to structural injustice, rule-following, Black feminist philosophy, legal pragmatism, moral progress, relativism, and skepticism. This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across disciplines who are engaging with the work of Richard Rorty. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: The Right Way to Flourish John Ehrenfeld, 2019-10-08 In this ground-breaking book, pre-eminent thought leader in the fields of sustainability and flourishing, John R. Ehrenfeld, critiques the concept of sustainability as it is understood today and which is coming more and more under attack as unclear and ineffective as a call for action. Building upon the recent work of cognitive scientist, Iain McGilchrist, who argues that the human brain’s two hemispheres present distinct different worlds, this book articulates how society must replace the current foundational left-brain-based beliefs – a mechanistic world and a human driven by self interest – with new ones based on complexity and care. Flourishing should replace the lifeless metrics now being used to guide business and government, as well as individuals. Until we accept that our modern belief structure is, itself, the barrier, we will continue to be mired in an endless succession of unsolved problems. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Revisiting Richard Rorty Pedro Góis Moreira, 2020-05-05 Richard Rorty is considered one of the most original philosophers of the last decades, and he has generated warm enthusiasm on the part of many intellectuals and students, within and outside the field of philosophy. The collection opens with an essay by Robert Brandom, in which he continues the discussion of Rorty’s “vocabulary vocabulary” that he began in Rorty and his Critics, and ends with an interview in which Brandom talks about Rorty himself as a teacher and friend. The collection is then divided into three further sections, each addressing an aspect of Rorty’s thought. First, a political section contains several essays discussing Rorty’s notorious “prophecy” in Achieving our Country and the idea that he would have foreseen the rise of a political “strongman.” Also discussed are Rorty's view of the cultural left, his view of the relation between truth and democracy, and Rorty on the concept of fraternity. In a second, epistemological section, several essays address Rorty’s historicism, anti-representationalism, and his views on truth and on religion, often through the lenses of his critics (Putnam, Habermas, Dews). A final section addresses the relations between Rorty and other philosophers such as Hume, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset. This works contains valuable essays in three languages — English, Portuguese, and Spanish — and is a small example of the reach of Rorty’s thought and its expansion beyond the Anglo-Saxon world in only ten years after his death. It will appeal to Rorty’s scholars and researchers as well as any student of pragmatism and anti-foundationalist thought. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: What Can We Hope For? Richard Rorty, 2022-05-10 Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States Richard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who, almost two decades before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, warned of the rise of a Trumpian strongman in America. What Can We Hope For? gathers nineteen of Rorty’s essays on American and global politics, including four previously unpublished and many lesser-known and hard-to-find pieces. In these provocative and compelling essays, Rorty confronts the critical challenges democracies face at home and abroad, including populism, growing economic inequality, and overpopulation and environmental devastation. In response, he offers optimistic and realistic ideas about how to address these crises. He outlines strategies for fostering social hope and building an inclusive global community of trust, and urges us to put our faith in trade unions, universities, bottom-up social campaigns, and bold political visions that thwart ideological pieties. Driven by Rorty’s sense of emergency about our collective future, What Can We Hope For? is filled with striking diagnoses of today’s political crises and creative proposals for solving them. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: A Companion to Rorty Alan Malachowski, 2020-04-13 A groundbreaking reference work on the revolutionary philosophy and intellectual legacy of Richard Rorty A provocative and often controversial thinker, Richard Rorty and his ideas have been the subject of renewed interest to philosophers working in epistemology, metaphysics, analytic philosophy, and the history of philosophy. Having called for philosophers to abandon representationalist accounts of knowledge and language, Rorty introduced radical and challenging concepts to modern philosophy, generating divisive debate through the new form of American pragmatism which he advocated and the renunciation of traditional epistemology which he espoused. However, while Rorty has been one of the most widely-discussed figures in modern philosophy, few volumes have dealt directly with the expansive reach of his thought or its implications for the fields of philosophy in which he worked. The Blackwell Companion to Rorty is a collection of essays by prominent scholars which provide close, and long-overdue, examination of Rorty’s groundbreaking work. Divided into five parts, this volumecovers the major intellectual movements of Rorty’s career from his early work on consciousness and transcendental arguments, to the lasting impacts of his major writings, to his approach to pragmatism and his controversial appropriations from other philosophers, and finally to his later work in culture, politics, and ethics. Offers a comprehensive, balanced, and insightful account of Rorty's approach to philosophy Provides an assessment of Rorty’s more controversial thoughts and his standing as an “anti-philosopher’s philosopher” Contains new and original exploration of Rorty’s thinking from leading scholars and philosophers Includes new perspectives on topics such as Rorty's influence in Central Europe Despite the relevance of Rorty’s work for the wider community of philosophers and for those working in fields such as international relations, legal and political theory, sociology, and feminist studies, the secondary literature surrounding Rorty’s work and legacy is limited. A Companion to Rorty address this absence, providinga comprehensive resource for philosophers and general readers. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies Richard Rorty, Derek Nystrom, Kent Puckett, 1998 Nystrom and Puckett's pamphlet gives us the most comprehensive picture available of Richard Rorty's political views. This is Rorty being avuncular, cranky, and straightforward: his arguments on patriotism, the political left, and philosophy—as usual, unusual—are worth pondering. This pamphlet will appeal to all those interested in Rorty's distinct brand of pragmatism and leftist politics in the United States. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone Astra Taylor, 2019-05-07 “A New Civil Rights Leader” explores what we mean when we speak of democracy and if democracy can truly ever exist (LA Times). There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering and dark-money campaign contributions, it is clear that the principle of government by and for the people is not living up to its promise. The problems lie deeper than any one election cycle. As Astra Taylor demonstrates, real democracy—fully inclusive and completely egalitarian—has in fact never existed. In a tone that is both philosophical and anecdotal, weaving together history, theory, the stories of individuals, and interviews with such leading thinkers as Cornel West and Wendy Brown, Taylor invites us to reexamine the term. Is democracy a means or an end, a process or a set of desired outcomes? What if those outcomes, whatever they may be—peace, prosperity, equality, liberty, an engaged citizenry—can be achieved by non-democratic means? In what areas of life should democratic principles apply? If democracy means rule by the people, what does it mean to rule and who counts as the people? Democracy’s inherent paradoxes often go unnamed and unrecognized. Exploring such questions, Democracy May Not Exist offers a better understanding of what is possible, what we want, why democracy is so hard to realize, and why it is worth striving for. “Astra Taylor will change how you think about democracy. . . . She unpacks it, wrestles with it, with the question of who gets included and how, and excavates the invisible assumptions that have been bred into our idea of democracy.” —Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show “An impressive contribution. . . . Taylor sets out to impart some coherence and substance to the term in order to rescue it from ignorance and obfuscation and displays considerable intellectual nimbleness.” —Randall Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review “Magnificent, paradigm-shifting . . . Taylor’s deep and wide examination of democratic movements, conversations, and grassroots institutions makes the reader feel . . . democracy as pleasure of thinking and acting.” —The Los Angeles Review of Books |
| richard rorty achieving our country: The Philosophy of Richard Rorty Richard Rorty, 2010 The Library of Living Philosophers has exceeded even Schilpp's expectations, enabling the outstanding philosophers of each generation to do more than clarify, by extending and elaborating their thoughts. A volume in the Library of Living Philosophers is not merely a commentary on a philosopher's work: it is a crucial part of that work. -- |
| richard rorty achieving our country: The Rorty Reader Christopher J. Voparil, Richard J. Bernstein, 2010-08-09 The first comprehensive collection of the work of Richard Rorty (1931-2007), The Rorty Reader brings together the influential American philosopher’s essential essays from over four decades of writings. Offers a comprehensive introduction to Richard Rorty's life and body of work Brings key essays published across many volumes and journals into one collection, including selections from his final volume of philosophical papers, Philosophy as Cultural Politics (2007)) Contains the previously unpublished (in English) essay, “Redemption from Egotism” Includes in-depth interviews, and several revealing autobiographical pieces Represents the fullest portrait available today on Rorty’s relationship with American pragmatism and the trajectory of his thought |
| richard rorty achieving our country: The Agony of the American Left Christopher Lasch, 2013-03-20 Five long essays by an American historian, the author of The New Radicalism in America (1965). Under the rubric of the collapse of mass-based radical movements, Lasch examines the decline of populism, the disintegration of the American socialist party, and the weaknesses of black nationalism. Also included is a history of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and a discussion of the '60's revival of ideological controversy. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind Wilfrid Sellars, Richard Rorty, Robert Brandom, 1997-03-25 The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of knowledge by acquaintance. Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind was a decisive move in turning analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives of the logical empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of epistemology. With an introduction by Richard Rorty to situate the work within the history of recent philosophy, and with a study guide by Robert Brandom, this publication of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind makes a difficult but indisputably significant figure in the development of analytic philosophy clear and comprehensible to anyone who would understand that philosophy or its history. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Truth and Progress Richard Rorty, 1991 The volume complements two highly successful previously published volumes of Richard Rorty's philosophical papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, and Essays on Heidegger and Others. The essays in the volume engage with the work of many of today's most innovative thinkers including Robert Brandom, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Jacques Derrida, Juergen Habermas, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, John Searle, and Charles Taylor. The collection also touches on problems in contemporary feminism raised by Annette Baier, Marilyn Frye, and Catherine MacKinnon, and considers issues connected with human rights and cultural differences. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture Deborah Whitehead, 2016-01-21 “Continues and adds to a rich conversation among American philosophers concerning the origins of pragmatism and its possibilities for the future.” —William Gavin, University of Southern Maine William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in nineteenth-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative, gender, nation, politics, and religion. As she considers how pragmatism helps to explain the United States to itself, Whitehead articulates a contemporary pragmatism and shows how it has become a powerful and influential discourse in American intellectual and popular culture. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: What's the Use of Truth? Richard Rorty, Pascal Engel, 2007 American pragmatist Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality. What's the Use of Truth? is a rare opportunity to experience each side of this impassioned debate clearly and concisely. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Safe Enough Spaces Michael S. Roth, 2019-08-20 From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher education In this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy, candor, subtlety, and insight, Roth offers a sane approach to the noisy debates surrounding affirmative action, political correctness, and free speech, urging us to envision college as a space in which students are empowered to engage with criticism and with a variety of ideas. Countering the increasing cynical dismissal—from both liberals and conservatives—of the traditional core values of higher education, this book champions the merits of different diversities, including intellectual diversity, with a timely call for universities to embrace boldness, rigor, and practical idealism. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Daily Life in Ancient and Modern London Betony Toht, David Toht, 2001-01-01 Describes daily life in London from the time of the Roman invasion in A.D. 43, through medieval, Elizabethan, and Victorian times, on to the reign of Elizabeth II. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself Richard Rorty, Eduardo Mendieta, 2006 This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual commentary, engagement, and criticism. In colloquial language, Rorty discusses the relevance and nonrelevance of philosophy to American political and public life. The collection also provides a candid set of insights into Rorty's political beliefs and his commitment to the labor and union traditions in this country. Finally, the interviews reveal Rorty to be a deeply engaged social thinker and observer. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Journey to the United States of North America / Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte de Am?rica Lorenzo de Zavala, 2005-04-30 First published in Paris in 1834, Journey to the United States of America / Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte América, by Lorenzo de Zavala, is an elegantly written travel narrative that maps de Zavala's journey through the United States during his exile from Mexico in 1830. Embracing U.S., Texas, and Mexican history; early ethnography; geography; and political philosophy, de Zavala outlines the cultural and political institutions of Jacksonian America and post-independence Mexico. de Zavala's commentary rivals Alex de Tocqueville's classic travel narrative, Democracy in America, which was published in Paris one year after de Zavala's. The narrative presents the first account of U.S. political culture from a Mexican point of view and constructs the first comparative political and historical framework for the relationship between Mexico and the United States. In passionate prose, de Zavala argues for the incorporation of the true democratic ideals of the enlightenment in the fledgling Republic of Texas. He hoped Texas would meld the best of both Mexican and American cultures. de Zavala believed that if his colleagues who helped frame the Texas Constitution understood the complexities of democracy and the ideals that their state could achieve through a liberal, federal government that gave equal rights to all of its constituents: Native Americans, Mexicans, Euro-Americans, and free African Americans. The original text is accompanied by eight pages of maps and historical photos, John-Michael Rivera's critical introduction, and an English translation based upon Wallace Woolsey's deft translation, expanded and revised for the purposes of this volume. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Richard Rorty, 1980 |
| richard rorty achieving our country: The Practice of Political Theory Clayton Chin, 2018-08-28 Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? In The Practice of Political Theory, Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that intervenes in the current surge of methodological debates in political thought, arguing that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues. Chin illustrates the significance of Rorty’s thought for contemporary political thinking, casting his conception of “philosophy as cultural politics” as a resource for new models of sociopolitical criticism. He juxtaposes Rorty’s pragmatism with the ontological turn, illuminating them as alternative interventions in the current debate over the crisis of foundations in philosophy. Chin places Rorty in dialogue with continental philosophy and those working within its legacy. Focused on both important questions in pragmatist scholarship and central issues in contemporary political thought, The Practice of Political Theory is an important response to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: The American Civil War Civil War Society, 1994 An alphabetical arrangement of topics pertaining to the American Civil War that emphasizes the diverse social and cultural composition of the United States in the mid-19th century. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Heidegger in America Martin Woessner, 2010-12-20 Heidegger in America explores the surprising legacy of his life and thought in the United States of America. As a critic of modern life, Heidegger often lamented the growing global influence of all things American. However, it was precisely in America where his thought inspired the work of generations of thinkers – not only philosophers but also theologians, architects, novelists, and even pundits. As a result, the reception and dissemination of Heidegger's philosophical writings transformed the intellectual and cultural history of the United States at a time when American influence was itself transforming the world. A case study in the complex and sometimes contradictory process of transnational exchange, Heidegger in America recasts the scope and methods of contemporary intellectual and cultural history in the age of globalization, challenging what we think we know about Heidegger and American ideas simultaneously. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Visible Identities Linda Martín Alcoff, 2005-12-22 In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martín Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they doomed to oppositional politics, nor do they inevitably lead to conformism, essentialism, or reductive approaches to judging others. Identities are historical formations and their political implications are open to interpretation. But identities such as race and gender also have a powerful visual and material aspect that eliminativists and social constructionists often underestimate. Visible Identities offers a careful analysis of the political and philosophical worries about identity and argues that these worries are neither supported by the empirical data nor grounded in realistic understandings of what identities are. Martín Alcoff develops a more realistic characterization of identity in general through combining phenomenological approaches to embodiment with hermeneutic concepts of the interpretive horizon. Besides addressing the general contours of social identity, Martín Alcoff develops an account of the material infrastructure of gendered identity, compares and contrasts gender identities with racialized ones, and explores the experiential aspects of racial subjectivity for both whites and non-whites. In several chapters she looks specifically at Latino identity as well, including its relationship to concepts of race, the specific forms of anti-Latino racism, and the politics of mestizo or hybrid identity. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Volume 4 Richard Rorty, 2007-01-01 This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others and Truth and Progress. Topics discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the course of recent centuries, the role of the imagination in intellectual and moral progress, the notion of 'moral identity', the Wittgensteinian claim that the problems of philosophy are linguistic in nature, the irrelevance of cognitive science to philosophy, and the mistaken idea that philosophers should find the 'place' of such things as consciousness and moral value in a world of physical particles. The papers form a rich and distinctive collection which will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in philosophy and its relation to culture. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: A Nation Reformed? David T. Gordon, 2003 |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Unipolarity and the Evolution of America's Cold War Alliances Nigel Thalakada, 2012-05-04 Thalakada argues that the principal purpose of US alliances have shifted since the end of the Cold War from containing communist expansionism (balance of power) to preserving and exercising US power (management of power).He also looks across all US alliances highlighting the trend from regionally-based to more globally-active alliances. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: After Sorrow Lady Borton, 1995 After Sorrow spans an American woman's twenty-five years of experience in Viet Nam. It is the story of the ordinary Vietnamese whom Americans fought against but never had the chance to know. Lady Borton has come to know these people intimately from her work there, first in a Quaker Service rehabilitation center for civilian amputees in South Viet Nam (1969-71), and up to the present. After Sorrow centers on the last eight years, during which Lady made repeated visits to three villages, one a former Viet Cong base in the Mekong Delta of southern Viet Nam, another a rice-farming commune in the Red River Delta of northern Viet Nam, and the third, Ha Noi, which Vietnamese call their largest village. In this deeply moving memoir, Lady's women friends recall their own roles in the struggles that climaxed in the American War. These are war stories of a kind we have not heard before: women's stories of courage, guile, patience, and fate; of climbing mountains and hiding in rivers and capturing prisoners, of carrying rifles beneath vats of fish sauce in canoes, of mourning husbands, of thousands missing. In Lady Borton's previous book, Sensing the Enemy, she wrote about the Boat People who left Viet Nam. After Sorrow is the strong and uplifting story of the people who stayed. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: The Trouble with Canada William Gairdner, 2007-08 The original edition of this bestselling and country-changing book. Beginning in the 1970s, Canada abandoned its historical foundations and fell under the spell of socialism. This best-selling classic, which galvanized the generation now leading the counter-attack, explains in plain language how Canadians got into their present predicament, and how to get out. He deals with such topics as the great welfare ripoff; the waste in foreign aid giveaways; radical feminism's attack against the family; the mediocrity of the health-care system; and the politicization of the church. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Time of Transitions Jürgen Habermas, 2006-03-14 We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries – such as the international order of sovereign nation-states – are being called into question. In this new volume of essays and interviews, Habermas focuses his attention on these processes of change and provides some of the resources needed to understand them. What kind of international order should we seek to create in our contemporary global age? How should we understand the political project of Europe and how can the democratic deficit of the EU be overcome? How should we understand the relation between democracy as popular sovereignty, which has become the defining principle of political legitimacy in the modern world, and the idea of basic human rights embodied in the rule of law? Habermas brings his formidable powers of analysis and his distinctive theoretical perspective to bear on these and other key questions of the modern age. His analysis is shaped throughout by his commitment to informed public debate and his powerful advocacy of a postnational renewal of the project of constitutional democracy. Time of Transitions will be essential reading for all students and scholars of sociology and politics, and it will be of interest to anyone concerned with the key social and political questions of our time. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Richard Rorty Charles Guignon, David R. Hiley, 2003-07-28 Arguably the most influential of all contemporary English-speaking philosophers Richard Rorty has transformed the way many inside and outside philosophy think about the discipline and the traditional ways of practicing it. The essays in this volume offer a balanced exposition and critique of Rorty's views on knowledge, language, truth, science, morality and politics. The introduction presents a valuable overview of Rorty's philosophical vision.Written by a distinguished roster of philosophers, it will appeal, beyond philosophy, to students in the social sciences, literary studies, cultural studies and political theory. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future Michael A. Peters, 2019-08-02 This edited collection is based on a series of articles written by Michael A Peters as Editor-in-Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory to explore the concept of The Chinese Dream first introduced by President Xi in 2012. This seventh volume in the Editor's Choice series provides a philosophical and historical analysis of The Chinese Dream by analyzing its major intersecting narratives - liberal, Confucian and Marxist. With chapters covering higher education strategy, social governance, socialist rule of law, the US-China trade war, technological unemployment and the emergence of the Chinese techno-state, this volume also offers an introduction to Chinese philosophy and history, and its narrative re-crafting that presents China as a global power. The author calls this process and the emerging Chinese narratives 'Educating the Future'. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: Richard Rorty Neil Gross, Professor of Sociology Neil Gross, 2010-10 On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers. Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of living philosophers. In this masterly biography, Neil... |
| richard rorty achieving our country: The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, 2019-01-03 Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of republicanism and democracy. Crucial to this development were the thinkers who nurtured it, from Thomas Jefferson to Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B. DuBois to Jane Addams, and Betty Friedan to Richard Rorty. The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today. Spanning a variety of disciplines, from religion, philosophy, and political thought, to cultural criticism, social theory, and the arts, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen shows how ideas have been major forces in American history, driving movements such as transcendentalism, Social Darwinism, conservatism, and postmodernism. In engaging and accessible prose, this introduction to American thought considers how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality -- and even truth -- have commanded generations of Americans and been the cause of fierce debate. |
| richard rorty achieving our country: On Philosophy and Philosophers Richard Rorty, 2020-10-15 Philosophers suffer from a peculiar occupational hazard; people are always coming up and asking them just what it is that they do and how they do it. This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details. But a philosopher is different - it is very hard to imagine just what he does with his time-- |
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In recent essays, interviews, and books Richard Rorty reaffirms his weU-known stance as a pubUc advocate of "social hope." He hopes for a better world, more widely and evenly dis
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-century
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-century America. RICHARD RORIY. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 159 p. Cloth $18.95. This is the first of Richard …
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Achieving Our Country Richard Rorty,1999 One of America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great …
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The success of the Reformist Left, Rorty argues, suggests that the New Left should reconcile itself with the Reformist Left by embracing national pride, working within the established political …
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For Rorty, what separates the activist Old Left from the spectatorial New Left is a historical event-Vietnam. Once the dirty facts of U.S. intervention emerged and complicity seemed ubiquitous, …
Achieving Our Country - exosomatic.org
Rony, Richard. Achieving our country: leftist thought in twentieth-century America I Richard Rony. p. an.-(The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization; 1997) …
Achieving our Country Richard Rorty - Graham Seibert
Richard Rorty, a Humanities professor at the University of Virginia, is an old lefty. He published this thin, overpriced book through Harvard University Press. Presumably leftists in those …
Review of â•œAchieving Our Countryâ•š
Achieving Our Country, by Richard Rorty (Harvard University Press, 1998. 151 pages. Paperback $12.95. ISBN 0-674-00312-8.) Rorty’s Achieving Our Country: Literature-Based Pragmatic …
Awful Patriotism: Richard Rorty and the Politics of Knowing - JSTOR
RICHARD RORTY AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWING DAVID PAL UMBO-LIU Richard Rorty. ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY: LEFTIST THOUGHT IN TWENTI-ETH-CENTURY AMERICA. …
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r Richard Rorty’s 1998 book Achieving Our Country were shared thousands of times on social media. Both the New York Times and the Guardian wrote about Rorty’s prophecy and its …
Richard Rorty and the Demands of Liberalism
Through examination of his oft-ignored, revealing interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov and instructive comparison with the thought of Judith Shklar, I argue that, for Rorty, the …
Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies - Scienze Postmoderne
Rorty begins Achieving our Country (he takes the title, importantly, from the last line of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time) with an account of the sources of his own leftism, a political …
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William Max Knorpp also retrieves these passages from Achieving our Country and, in “Richard Rorty’s “strongman” prediction and the cultural left,” he addresses Rorty's argument in order to …
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Achieving Our Country hangs is between what Rorty calls “real politics” and “cultural politics”, a conclusion that is confirmed, I argue, by examining the three concrete suggestions for the …
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In the American setting, the pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty not long ago carne forward with a stirring plea for practical-political reorientation. Based on his Massey lectures delivered at …
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Rorty’s relationship to a class-based European theoretical political tradition, it is argued, leads him to underestimate and under-emphasize the problems posed by race for his stated goal of …
BOOK REVIEWS - JSTOR
Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America. Richard Rorty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 159 pages. Hardcover, $18.95. (Reviewed by Jennifer G. …
Nietzsche, Rorty, and Enlightemnent - McMaster University
Through an examination of the work of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and especially that of Richard Rorty, this thesis develops and defends an argument based on Nietzsche's thinking …
Something Has Cracked - JSTOR
(Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country) Introduction Selecting intellectual heroes is a dangerous business. They are inevitably riddled with vices (small or large, private or public, ethical or …
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Achieving Our Country Richard Rorty,1999 One of America s foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great …
Achieving Our Country - JSTOR
In recent essays, interviews, and books Richard Rorty reaffirms his weU-known stance as a pubUc advocate of "social hope." He hopes for a better world, more widely and evenly dis
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-century
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-century America. RICHARD RORIY. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 159 p. Cloth $18.95. This is the first of Richard …
Achieving Our Country Leftist Thought In Twentiet Full PDF
Achieving Our Country Richard Rorty,1999 One of America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great …
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century …
The success of the Reformist Left, Rorty argues, suggests that the New Left should reconcile itself with the Reformist Left by embracing national pride, working within the established political …
Rorty, Richard. Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in …
For Rorty, what separates the activist Old Left from the spectatorial New Left is a historical event-Vietnam. Once the dirty facts of U.S. intervention emerged and complicity seemed ubiquitous, …
Achieving Our Country - exosomatic.org
Rony, Richard. Achieving our country: leftist thought in twentieth-century America I Richard Rony. p. an.-(The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization; 1997) …
Achieving our Country Richard Rorty - Graham Seibert
Richard Rorty, a Humanities professor at the University of Virginia, is an old lefty. He published this thin, overpriced book through Harvard University Press. Presumably leftists in those …
Review of â•œAchieving Our Countryâ•š
Achieving Our Country, by Richard Rorty (Harvard University Press, 1998. 151 pages. Paperback $12.95. ISBN 0-674-00312-8.) Rorty’s Achieving Our Country: Literature-Based Pragmatic …
Awful Patriotism: Richard Rorty and the Politics of Knowing - JSTOR
RICHARD RORTY AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWING DAVID PAL UMBO-LIU Richard Rorty. ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY: LEFTIST THOUGHT IN TWENTI-ETH-CENTURY AMERICA. …
Something Has Cracked: Post-Truth Politics and Richard Rorty’s ...
r Richard Rorty’s 1998 book Achieving Our Country were shared thousands of times on social media. Both the New York Times and the Guardian wrote about Rorty’s prophecy and its …
Richard Rorty and the Demands of Liberalism
Through examination of his oft-ignored, revealing interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov and instructive comparison with the thought of Judith Shklar, I argue that, for Rorty, the …
Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies - Scienze Postmoderne
Rorty begins Achieving our Country (he takes the title, importantly, from the last line of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time) with an account of the sources of his own leftism, a political …
Revisiting Richard Rorty - Vernon Press
William Max Knorpp also retrieves these passages from Achieving our Country and, in “Richard Rorty’s “strongman” prediction and the cultural left,” he addresses Rorty's argument in order to …
“Richard Rorty on the American Left in the Era of Trump”
Achieving Our Country hangs is between what Rorty calls “real politics” and “cultural politics”, a conclusion that is confirmed, I argue, by examining the three concrete suggestions for the …
Achieving our World Democratically - JSTOR
In the American setting, the pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty not long ago carne forward with a stirring plea for practical-political reorientation. Based on his Massey lectures delivered at …
«To him other continents arrive as contributions» Richard Rorty ...
Rorty’s relationship to a class-based European theoretical political tradition, it is argued, leads him to underestimate and under-emphasize the problems posed by race for his stated goal of …
BOOK REVIEWS - JSTOR
Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America. Richard Rorty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 159 pages. Hardcover, $18.95. (Reviewed by Jennifer G. …
Nietzsche, Rorty, and Enlightemnent - McMaster University
Through an examination of the work of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and especially that of Richard Rorty, this thesis develops and defends an argument based on Nietzsche's thinking …
Something Has Cracked - JSTOR
(Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country) Introduction Selecting intellectual heroes is a dangerous business. They are inevitably riddled with vices (small or large, private or public, ethical or …
