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Robert Lamb - Richard Rorty and the Idea of Political Hope, Häftad

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Richard Rorty and the Idea of Political Hope

Liberalism as Uncertainty

Av Robert Lamb

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Hope is a vital force in politics, nourishing our visions of the future when things seem irredeemably bleak. Contemporary philosophy is trapped within a view of hope as an everyday desire empty of ethical and political content. Much political theory defers to philosophy and appears unable to appreciate the value of hope as a political attitude. Through an interpretive conversation with Richard Rorty, Robert Lamb shows how Rorty uses Hegel to develop a compelling, alternative understanding of hope as the yearning for a better future amidst a contingent social world and fragile political inheritance. Commitment to political hope - an enemy of despair, optimism, and certainty - invites a reorientation of philosophical reflection and involves a demanding civic ethos to sustain communities fragmented by pathological individualism. Rorty's interpretations of John Rawls, feminism, and the redemptive potential of history show the relevance of hope for the urgent challenges facing twenty-first-century liberal democracy.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-03
  • Mått: 152 x 228 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 250 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 276
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781009749947
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Robert Lamb is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Chair of the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought (BIAPT).

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'Inspiring as it is rigorous, Robert Lamb's Richard Rorty and the Idea of Political Hope is a timely work for the darkening present. At its core stands a revelatory account of the late, oft-maligned and misunderstood pragmatist thinker, from whom Lamb reconstructs a specifically political vision of hope as a crucially collaborative social disposition. In the process, Lamb carefully traverses an extraordinary range of topics, with bracing and insightful discussions of Hegel, Rawls, Marx, feminism, liberalism, realism, justice, social truth, optimism, pessimism, curiosity, progress, utopia, love, humility, cruelty, philosophy, literature, and so much more. A wonderful book.' Loren Goldman, University of Pennsylvania

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