What Can We Hope For?: Essays on PoliticsPrescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States |
Contents
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Who Are We? | 21 |
Democracy and Philosophy | 34 |
Dewey and Posner on Pragmatism | 49 |
Rethinking Democracy | 65 |
First Projects Then Principles | 71 |
Does Being an American Give One a Moral Identity? | 81 |
Demonizing the Academy | 90 |
Making the Rich Richer | 146 |
Looking Backwards from the Year 2096 | 149 |
Global Politics | 159 |
The Unpredictable American Empire | 161 |
Post Democracy | 178 |
Humiliation or Solidarity? | 187 |
Half a Million Blue Helmets? | 195 |
A Queasy Agnosticism | 201 |