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As imperfect as those expansions have been, even today, the United States is a better place for having widened our sense of who constitutes "us," of having engaged in what Richard Rorty called justice as larger loyalty.
Clay Shirky: After Tahrir: Protecting U.S. Muslims From Bigotry
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As imperfect as those expansions have been, even today, the United States is a better place for having widened our sense of who constitutes "us," of having engaged in what Richard Rorty called justice as larger loyalty.
Clay Shirky: After Tahrir: Protecting U.S. Muslims From Bigotry
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The mission of universities focused on liberal learning should be, in Richard Rorty's words, "to incite doubt and stimulate imagination, thereby challenging the prevailing consensus."
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As imperfect as those expansions have been, even today, the United States is a better place for having widened our sense of who constitutes "us," of having engaged in what Richard Rorty called justice as larger loyalty.
Clay Shirky: After Tahrir: Protecting U.S. Muslims From Bigotry
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The mission of universities focused on liberal learning should be, in Richard Rorty's words, "to incite doubt and stimulate imagination, thereby challenging the prevailing consensus."
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A couple of years ago I visited my cousin Richard Rorty, another famously secular humanist philosopher who was dying from pancreatic cancer.
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The chapter is devoted to three American Nietzscheans—Harold Bloom, Stanley Cavell and Richard Rorty—who all rediscovered American transcendentalism through Nietzsche and whose inclusion at the end of the book makes Nietzsche's thought seem like a long detour on the way back home to Emerson.
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The mission of universities focused on liberal learning should be, in Richard Rorty's words, "to incite doubt and stimulate imagination, thereby challenging the prevailing consensus."
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A couple of years ago I visited my cousin Richard Rorty, another famously secular humanist philosopher who was dying from pancreatic cancer.
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As imperfect as those expansions have been, even today, the United States is a better place for having widened our sense of who constitutes "us," of having engaged in what Richard Rorty called justice as larger loyalty.
Clay Shirky: After Tahrir: Protecting U.S. Muslims From Bigotry
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March 19, 2012