What Can We Hope For? (eBook)

Essays on Politics

Richard Rorty (Autor)

W. P. Malecki, Chris Voparil (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21753-6 (ISBN)

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 gathers nineteen of Rorty's essays on American and global politics, including four previously unpublished and many lesser-known and hard-to-find pieces.In these provocative and compelling essays, Rorty confronts the critical challenges democracies face at home and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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.5.2022
• Vorwort: Saskia Sassen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Achieving Our Country • Acquiescence • activism • Adviser • Advocacy • Affirmative Action • African Americans • afterword • agnosticism • Allan Bloom • American Thinker • Analogy • Analytic philosophy • anti-authoritarianism • A. Philip Randolph • authoritarianism • Availability • Betty Friedan • bribery • candidate • Career • caste • Certainty • Charles Sanders Peirce • Citizenship • Coming out • Committee • Community of Interest • Conscience • Conservatism • Consideration • Constitution • Contingency (Philosophy) • Cornel West • critique • Cultural diversity • Cultural Identity • culture of the united states • Democracy • Desire • Developing Country • Docudrama • economy • Entrepreneurship • Epistemology • Epithet • Equal Opportunity • ethics • ethnic cleansing • Ethos • exceptionalism • Existence • expansionism • First principle • global community • global issue • Globalization • Government • greatness • grievance • hegemony • How the Other Half Lives • idealism • Identity politics • Illustration • Imagination • imperialism • income • indoctrination • Inquiry • Institution • Intellectual • Irony • Jane Addams • jeremiad • John Dewey • Jurisprudence • learning • left-wing politics • Legislation • Looking Backward • Make a Difference • Metaphor • Metaphysics • Morality • moral universalism • Motivation • Multiculturalism • name-dropping • narrative • Nationalism • national security • nation state • Nomination • novelist • Objectivity (philosophy) • Our Choice • Patriotism • Persuasion • phenomenon • Philosopher • philosophical inquiry • Philosophy • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature • Political Correctness • political movement • Political Party • Politician • Politics • Populism • Positivism • Post-democracy • Postmodernism • Pragmatism • Prediction • premise • Principle • PROGRES • Public Opinion • Public sphere • Purist • Racism • Rationalism • Rationality • Realpolitik • reason • Rebellion • Reformism • Regime • Reinforcement • Relativism • Religion • result • rhetoric • Richard Rorty • Romer v. Evans • Save the Children • Scientism • self-concept • self-criticism • Self-Image • Sensitivity Training • Service economy • Singh • skepticism • Social Gospel • Social Justice • Social Security Administration • Society • Society of the United States • soliloquy • Suffering • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Teach-In • Technology • terrorism • The Establishment • Theology • theory • Theory of Justification • The Philosopher • The Promise of American Life • The Various • Thought • Thought and Action • Value judgment • vocabulary • welfare • Welfare State • Western World • Willard Van Orman Quine • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21753-X / 069121753X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21753-6 / 9780691217536