What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics

by Richard Rorty

Book Overview

Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States Richard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who, almost two decades before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, warned of the rise of a Trumpian strongman in America. What Can We Hope For? gathers nineteen of Rorty's essays...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691217521
• ISBN13: 9780691217529
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"