[Peace] [sf-core] Article: The Book That Predicted Trump’s Rise Offers the Left a Roadmap for Defeating Him

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Which of Rorty’s views do you not endorse, Belden?

Do you endorse the political establishment’s denigration of the ‘populist demagogue’s’ agreements with the Russian president in Hamburg? 

Do you support the establishment (and media) call for the renewal of the Obama-Clinton administration’s war provocations against Russia, from Ukraine to Syria? 

—CGE


> On Jul 7, 2017, at 8:28 PM, 'Fields, A Belden' a-fields at illinois.edu [sf-core] <sf-core-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> While I  not endorsing all of Rorty's views, I think it' interesting coming from one of the most prominent American philosophers.  I do share his critique of Foucault and have made a similar one in Nelson and Grossberg (eds) Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture,
> Belden
> 
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>> From: "Mohraz, Jane E" <jmohraz at illinois.edu>
>> Date: July 6, 2017 at 10:24:57 PM CDT
>> To: "Fields, A Belden" <a-fields at illinois.edu>
>> Subject: Article: The Book That Predicted Trump’s Rise Offers the Left a Roadmap for Defeating Him
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>> Twenty years ago, Richard Rorty warned that “a spectatorial, disgusted, mocking Left” would give rise to a populist demagogue. Is it ready now to take his advice? Twenty years ago, in a series of lectures on the history of American civilization, the philosopher Richard Rorty offered a prediction....
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