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Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
Richard Rorty
ISBN 13: 9780674003125
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Softcover
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In this study of American liberalism from the New Left of the '60s to the contemporary 'cultural' Left, Rorty decries what he observes to be a steadily increasing passivity and cynicism. He maintains that the American Left should 'kick its philosophy habit' and 'try to mobilize what remains of our pride in being Americans.'
Review:
"...the big names [great philosophers] are gracefrully integrated into a vision of what will happen if the left relinquishes its capacity for hope for a 'sardonic knowingness' engendered by theory....a deeply considered diagnosis, a vital set of prophecies."
Publishers Weekly, 03/23/1998
Review:"What Rorty has written--as deftly, amusingly and cleverly as he always writes--is a lay sermon for the untheological."
Alan Ryan, New York Times Book Review, 05/17/1998
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