Build Our Country: Twentieth-Century American Leftist Thought

Author: (American) Richard Rorty, translated by Huang Zongying
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This book originates from Richard Rorty's "Macy Lectures on the History of American Civilization" delivered in 1997. Rorty is consistently passionate and confident throughout the book, aiming to inspire American left-wing intellectuals to actively engage in domestic affairs and reignite their enthusiasm, thereby restoring balance to American cultural life. Rorty traces the intellectual achievements of the old left before the 1960s, evaluates the successes and failures of the cultural left since the 1960s, and points out that intellectuals should make more down-to-earth efforts to "build our country" and pursue the founding ideals of America.