What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics by Richard Rorty Paperback Book

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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 gathers nineteen of Rorty's essays on American and global politics, including four previously unpublished and many lesser-known and hard-to-find pieces.In these provocative and compelling essays, Rorty confronts the critical challenges democracies face at home and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.

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Richard Rorty (19312007) 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. Malecki is 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.

Review

"An invaluable collection."---Thomas Nagel, New Statesman"Thought-provoking. . . . Fiercely argued yet thoroughly empathetic, these political musings are littered with valuable insights and astute analysis." * Publishers Weekly *"If anyone deserves the mantle 'America's Orwell,' it's Rorty, who combined political activism and sharp observation with a fierce intellectual independence that allowed him to criticize both left-wing and right-wing ambitions. . . . Exemplary political writing by a renowned maverick." * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *

Details ISBN0691222908 Author Saskia Sassen Publisher Princeton University Press Format Paperback Pages 248 Year 2023 ISBN-13 9780691222905 Publication Date 2023-10-17 Imprint Princeton University Press Subtitle Essays on Politics Place of Publication New Jersey Country of Publication United States Edited by W. P. Malecki NZ Release Date 2023-10-17 US Release Date 2023-10-17 UK Release Date 2023-10-17 ISBN-10 0691222908 Alternative 9780691217529 DEWEY 320.973 AU Release Date 2024-01-31 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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