Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

“Provocative and engaging…The array of urgent questions and crises facing our democracy makes one miss Richard Rorty’s voice: insistent, relentlessly questioning, and dedicated to the proposition that we can’t afford to let our democracy fail.”-Chris Lehmann, New Republic“Richard Rorty was the most iconoclastic and dramatic philosopher of the last half-century.In this final book, his unique literary style, singular intellectual zest, and demythologizing defiance of official philosophy are on full display.”-Cornel West“Coherent, often brilliant, and it presents a clear and timely case for political pragmatism.”-Jonathan Rée, Prospect“Today, there are few philosophers left whose thoughts are inspired by a unifying vision; there are even fewer who can articulate such a view in terms of such a ravishing flow of provocative, but sharp and differentiated, arguments.”-Jürgen HabermasRichard Rorty’s final masterwork offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he be