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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...

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Autor principal: Rorty, Richard (Autor)
Otros Autores: Malecki, W. P. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Sassen, Saskia (Contribuidor), Voparil, Chris (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Democracy.
Globalization > Political aspects.
Political culture > United States.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
A. Philip Randolph.
Achieving Our Country.
Activism.
Advocacy.
Afterword.
Agnosticism.
Allan Bloom.
American Thinker.
Analytic philosophy.
Anti-authoritarianism.
Authoritarianism.
Betty Friedan.
Career.
Certainty.
Charles Sanders Peirce.
Citizenship.
Conscience.
Conservatism.
Consideration.
Contingency (philosophy).
Cornel West.
Critique.
Cultural diversity.
Culture of the United States.
Docudrama.
Epithet.
Ethics.
Ethnic cleansing.
Ethos.
Exceptionalism.
Existence.
First principle.
Global Community.
Global issue.
Globalization.
Greatness.
Grievance.
Hegemony.
Identity politics.
Imagination.
Imperialism.
Intellectual.
Irony.
Jane Addams.
Jeremiad.
John Dewey.
Jurisprudence.
Left-wing politics.
Looking Backward.
Metaphor.
Metaphysics.
Moral universalism.
Morality.
Motivation.
Multiculturalism.
Name-dropping.
Narrative.
National security.
Nationalism.
Novelist.
Patriotism.
Philosopher.
Philosophical Inquiry.
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.
Philosophy.
Political correctness.
Politics.
Post-democracy.
Postmodernism.
Pragmatism.
Prediction.
Premise.
Principle.
Public sphere.
Racism.
Rationality.
Realpolitik.
Reformism.
Relativism.
Richard Rorty.
Self-concept.
Self-criticism.
Self-image.
Social Gospel.
Social Security Administration.
Social justice.
Society of the United States.
Superiority (short story).
Teach-in.
Terrorism.
The Establishment.
The Philosopher.
Theology.
Theory of justification.
Thought and Action.
Thought.
Vocabulary.
Western world.
Willard Van Orman Quine.
Writing.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON SOURCES
  • INTRODUCTION The Philosopher and His Country
  • I POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY
  • 1 WHO ARE WE?
  • 2 DEMOCRACY AND PHILOSOPHY
  • 3 DEWEY AND POSNER ON PRAGMATISM AND MORAL PROGRESS
  • 4 RETHINKING DEMOCRACY
  • 5 FIRST PROJECTS, THEN PRINCIPLES
  • II AMERICAN POLITICS
  • 6 DOES BEING AN AMERICAN GIVE ONE A MORAL IDENTITY?
  • 7 DEMONIZING THE ACADEMY
  • 8 AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND THE HOPE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
  • 9 THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE POOR
  • 10 CAN AMERICAN EGALITARIANISM SURVIVE A GLOBALIZED ECONOMY?
  • 11 BACK TO CLASS POLITICS
  • 12 MAKING THE RICH RICHER
  • 13 LOOKING BACKWARDS FROM THE YEAR 2096
  • III GLOBAL POLITICS
  • 14 THE UNPREDICTABLE AMERICAN EMPIRE
  • 15 POST-DEMOCRACY
  • 16 HUMILIATION OR SOLIDARITY?
  • 17 HALF A MILLION BLUE HELMETS?
  • 18 A QUEASY AGNOSTICISM
  • AFTERWORD Intellectuals and the Millennium
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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