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Rorty’s ideology: Achieving Our Country

Posted on May 23rd, 2007 in pragmatism, American Philosophy, Black Studies, Marxism, ideology, academia, left, religion, James Baldwin, Richard Rorty, individualism, communitarianism, Michel Foucault, democracy, postmodernism, John Dewey, Walt Whitman.

[Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts, Chapter One]
Achieving Our Country, Achieving Our World: Baldwin, Rorty, and Social Hope
Judith M. Green, Fordham University
If anything shows up the ideological nature and ultimate uselessness of pragmatism, this review does, first, by exposing the selective attention, nostalgia, myth-making and wish-fulfillment upon which Rorty’s social vision rests, and second, inadvertently, by […]