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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. 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.
How have national pride and American patriotism come to seem an endorsement of atrocities--from slavery to the slaughter
of Native Americans, from the rape of ancient forests to the Vietnam War? 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 era. Richard Rorty describes how
the paradoxical victory of the antiwar movement, ushering in the Nixon years, encouraged a disillusioned generation of
intellectuals to pursue "High Theory" at the expense of considering the place of ideas in our common life. In this turn to
theory, Rorty sees a retreat from the secularism and pragmatism championed by Dewey and Whitman, and he decries the
tendency of the heirs of the New Left to theorize about the United States from a distance instead of participating in the civic
work of shaping our national future.
In the absence of a vibrant, active Left, the views of intellectuals on the American Right have come to dominate the public
sphere. This galvanizing book, adapted from Rorty's Massey Lectures of 1997, takes the first step toward redressing the
imbalance in American cultural life by rallying those on the Left to the civic engagement and inspiration needed for
"achieving our country."
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Title: Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
Author: Richard Rorty
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Pages: 176
ISBN: 0674003128
ISBN13: 9780674003125
ASIN: 0674003128
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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. How have
national pride and American patriotism come to seem an endorsement of atrocities--from slavery to the slaughter of Native Americans,
from the rape of ancient forests to the Vietnam War? Achieving Our Country traces the sources of this debilitating mentality of shame in
the Left, as well as the harm it does to its proponent Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America is a 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. He criticizes the cultural left, which is exemplified by post-structuralists such as Michel Foucault and post-modernists
such as Jean-François Lyotard. Although these intellectuals make insightful claims about the ills of society, Rorty holds that they
provide no
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America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great
tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers such as Walt Whitman and John Dewey. 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.