{"product_id":"what-can-we-hope-for-essays-on-politics","title":"What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics","description":"Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States\n\nRichard 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 gathers nineteen of Rorty’s essays on American and global politics, including four previously unpublished and many lesser-known and hard-to-find pieces.\n\nIn these provocative and compelling essays, Rorty confronts the critical challenges democracies face at home and abroad, including populism, growing economic inequality, and overpopulation and environmental devastation. In response, he offers optimistic and realistic ideas about how to address these crises. He outlines strategies for fostering social hope and building an inclusive global community of trust, and urges us to put our faith in trade unions, universities, bottom-up social campaigns, and bold political visions that thwart ideological pieties.\n\nDriven by Rorty’s sense of emergency about our collective future, What Can We Hope For? is filled with striking diagnoses of today’s political crises and creative proposals for solving them.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0691217521\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0691217521.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rorty, Richard|Voparil, Chris|Malecki, W. P.|Sassen, Saskia\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41497300795450,"sku":"DBV.0691217521.G","price":10.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0691217521-0.jpg?v=1782928636","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/what-can-we-hope-for-essays-on-politics","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}