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Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America is a 1998 book by American philosopher Richard Rorty, in which the author differentiates between what he sees as the two sides of the left, a cultural left and a reformist left.
Rorty offers a resolute defense of pragmatic and reformist politics, coupled with a sophisticated rereading of the history of 20th-century American leftist thought.
BOOK EEEWS. 585. 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 Rorty's books to take up a challenge he has put to himself, ever since Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature,l about the imperative need in America for a ...
12 de ago. de 2009 · Internet Archive. Language. English. Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-151) and index. American national pride: Whitman and Dewey -- The eclipse of the reformist left -- A cultural left -- Movements and campaigns -- The inspirational value of great works of literature. Access-restricted-item.
19 de oct. de 2021 · Achieving Our Country traces the sources of this debilitating mentality of shame in the Left, as well as the harm it does to its proponents and to the country. At the center of this history is the conflict between the Old Left and the New that arose during the Vietnam War.
Richard Rorty. Harvard University Press, 1998 - Philosophy - 159 pages. Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied...
15 de abr. de 1998 · In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost philosophers challenges this lost generation of the Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers like Walt Whitman and John Dewey.
