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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.

Richard McKey Rorty var uddannet inden for isaer analytisk sprogfilosofi. Da han fra slutningen af 1970'erne kritiserede grundlaget for denne disciplin og skiftede fokus til litteraturstudier og kontinentaleuropaeisk filosofi, blev han angrebet af fagfilosoffer, men vandt samtidig et nyt publikum i en bredere offentlighed i både USA og resten af verden. I 1980'erne og 1990'erne slog han sit navn fast som en toneangivende fortaler for pragmatisme, sekularisme og amerikansk venstreorienteret liberalisme.