The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 157: Richard Rorty on Politics for the Left (Part One)

Jan 30, 2017 · 54 min · 52.0 MB

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On Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in 20th Century America (1998). What makes for efficacious progressivism? Rorty argues that reformism went out of fashion in the '60s in favor of a "cultural left" that merely critiques and spectates, leaving a void that a right-wing demagogue could exploit to sweep in, claiming to be a champion of regular working people. Sound familiar?

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