“Vladimir Nabokov and George Orwell had quite different gifts, and their self-images were quite different. But, I shall argue, their accomplishment was pretty much the same. Both of them warn the liberal ironist intellectual against temptations to be cruel. Both… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“The pre-Sixties reformist Left, insofar as it concerned itself with oppressed minorities, did so by proclaiming that all of us –– black, white, and… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“The cultural Left has contributed to the formation of this politically useless unconscious not only by adopting “power” as the name of an invisible,… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“When the Right proclaims that socialism has failed, and that capitalism is the only alternative, the cultural Left has little to say in reply.… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“One reason the cultural Left will have a hard time transforming itself into a political Left is that, like the Sixties Left, it still… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“This cultural Left thinks more about stigma than about money, more about deep and hidden psychosexual motivations than about shallow and evident greed.” — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“In my utopia, human solidarity would be seen not as a fact to be recognised by clearing away "prejudice" or burrowing down to previously… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Nabokov and George Orwell had quite different gifts, and their self-images were quite different. But, I shall argue, their accomplishment was pretty much… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
