Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-century America by Richard Rorty

Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-century America

The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies

Richard Rorty

159 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced

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The author argues that the Left wing in America sees the sins of America's past poisoning hope for the future, and challenges the lost generation of the Left to understand the role it might play in the tradition of democratic intellectual labour t...

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