Author:Rorty, Richard. At the center of this history is the conflict between the Old Left and the New that arose during the Vietnam War era. In this turn to theory, Rorty sees a retreat from the secularism and pragmatism championed by Dewey and Whitman, and he decries the tendency of the heirs of the New Left to theorize about the United States from a distance instead of participating in the civic work of shaping our national future.
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