Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
by Richard Rorty
List Price:
Our Price: $22.95
You Save: $5.55 (19%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.36 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Richard RortyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-04-15
ISBN: 067400311X
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Reviews of Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
Book Review: Informative and Inspiring Essays on Renewing "the Left"
Summary: 4 Stars
In this collection, which includes his three Massey lectures delivered in 1997 and two related essays from 1995, Richard Rorty argues that the once vital "left," to which America is deeply indebted, has sadly rendered itself irrelevant. Rorty critiques members of the (post)modern left who, embittered by pervasive injustice, have eschewed meaningful campaigns for political change in favor of too-abstract theory, too-utopian "movements" and too-pessimistic contempt for those who would work "within the system" for necessary reform. The American Left, Rorty argues, has become "spectatorial" rather than "participatory," able to comment upon the nation's descent into oligarchy but stymied by view that our nation's sins are so ingrained as to place us beyond redemption. Drawing on figures such as Walt Whitman, John Dewey, Abraham Lincoln, Irving Howe, Herbert Croly, and Harold Bloom, Rorty conjures an inspiring vision of a left that reconciles economic and cultural progressivism and becomes once again a participatry, progressive, and relevant force in American politics.
History Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in History Books
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazonby David Grann
Doubleday; Published: 2009-02-24; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.97
Price in other shops:
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendshipby Jeffrey Zaslow
Gotham; Published: 2009-04-21; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.60
Price in other shops:
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continentby Eduardo Galeano
Monthly Review Press; Published: 1997; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.44
Price in other shops:
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10by Marcus Luttrell
Little, Brown and Company; Published: 2009-05-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.55
Price in other shops:
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depressionby Amity Shlaes
Harper Perennial; Published: 2008-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.08
Price in other shops:
Columbineby Dave Cullen
Twelve; Published: 2009-04-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.49
Price in other shops:
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Timeby Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2007-01-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.50
Price in other shops:
Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong (Indigenous Americas)by Paul Chaat Smith
Univ Of Minnesota Press; Published: 2009-04-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.17
Price in other shops:
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. Loewen
Touchstone; Published: 2007-10-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.00
Price in other shops:
The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the Worldby W. Cleon Skousen
National Center for Constitutional Studies; Published: 1981-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.39
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers, Vol 1) (Volume 1)by Richard Rorty
Cambridge University Press; Published: 1990-11-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.00
Price in other shops:
The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papersby David Wootton
Hackett Pub Co; Published: 2003-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Vol.4 (Volume 4)by Richard Rorty
Cambridge University Press; Published: 2007-01-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.00
Price in other shops:
Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980by Richard Rorty
University of Minnesota Press; Published: 1982-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.22
Price in other shops:
The Closing of the American Mindby Allan Bloom
Simon & Schuster; Published: 1988-05-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.50
Price in other shops:
Philosophy and the Mirror of Natureby Richard Rorty
Princeton University Press; Published: 1981-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Public & Its Problemsby John Dewey
Swallow Press; Published: 1954-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty (Cultural Memory in the Present)by Richard Rorty
Stanford University Press; Published: 2005-11-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.92
Price in other shops:
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarityby Richard Rorty
Cambridge University Press; Published: 1989-02-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.00
Price in other shops:
Philosophy and Social Hopeby Richard Rorty
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2000-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.78
Price in other shops: