“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 brown –– are Americans, and that we should respect one another as such.” — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share
“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, ubiquitous, and malevolent presence, but by adopting ideals which nobody is yet able to imagine being actualized. Among these ideals are participatory democracy and the end of capitalism. Power will pass to the people, the Sixties… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share
“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
