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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 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previously unpublished and many lesser-known and hard-to-find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.
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previously unpublished and many lesser-known and hard-to-find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.
On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished
philosophical papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in
late-twentieth-century intellectual debates and a primary force
behind the resurgence of American pragmatism. The first collection
of new work to appear since his death in 2007, these previously
unseen papers advance novel views on metaphysics, ethics,
epistemology, philosophical semantics and the social role of
philosophy, critically engaging canonical and contemporary figures
from Plato and Kant to Kripke and Brandom. This book's diverse
offerings, which include technical essays written for specialists
and popular lectures, refine our understanding of Rorty's
perspective and demonstrate the ongoing relevance of the
iconoclastic American philosopher's ground-breaking thought. An
introduction by the editors highlights the papers' original
insights and contributions to contemporary debates.
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