Richard Rorty: What Can We Hope For?
What Can We Hope For?
Buch
- Essays on Politics
- Herausgeber: Chris Voparil, W P Malecki
- Princeton University Press, 10/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780691222905
- Bestellnummer: 11475710
- Umfang: 248 Seiten
- Gewicht: 299 g
- Maße: 208 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 17.10.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
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 gathers nineteen of Rorty's essays on American and global politics, including four previously unpublished and many lesser-known and hard-to-find pieces.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.
Biografie (Richard Rorty)
Richard Rorty was born in New York in 1931. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy in Chicago and finished his Ph.D. at Yale. At Wellesley College he was Instructor and Assistant Professor (1958-61). He has been professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia and professor at Princeton. He currently teaches in the comparative literature department at Stanford. Richard Rorty
What Can We Hope For?
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