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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.
- Richard Rorty
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- 1998
- 1998
12 de ago. de 2009 · 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.
Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America. Richard Rorty. Paperback. eBook. ISBN 9780674003125. Publication date: 09/01/1999. Request exam copy. Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed.
19 de out. 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.
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 halls of academe to...
- illustrated, reprint
- Richard Rorty
- 067400311X, 9780674003118
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-century America. RICHARD RORIY. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 159 p. Cloth $18.95.
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.
