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1998 book by Richard Rorty

Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America is a 1998 book by American philosopher Richard Rorty, in which the author differentiates between what he sees as the two sides of the left, a cultural left and a reformist left. He criticizes the cultural left, which is exemplified by post structuralists such as Michel Foucault and post modernists such as Jean François Lyotard. Although these intellectuals make insightful claims about the ills of society, Rorty holds that they provide no alternatives and even present progress as problematic at times. On the other hand, the progressive left, exemplified for Rorty by John Dewey, makes progress its priority in its goal of "achieving our country." Rorty sees the reformist left as acting in the philosophical spirit of pragmatism.

Achieving Our Country is an adaptation of lectures Rorty gave at Harvard University. It consists of expanded versions of the three lectures, two appendices ("Movements and Campaigns", "The Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature") as well as the notes, acknowledgements, and index.

It has been published in Germany as Stolz auf unser Land: die amerikanische Linke und der Patriotismus , and translated into Japanese by Teruhiko Ozawa and published in Kyoto by Koyoshobo as Amerika mikan no purojekuto: nijuseiki amerika ni okeru sayoku shiso A Dutch translation was published by Boom in 2001 as De voltooiing van Amerika (which translates as The completion of America), It has also been translated into Spanish by José Ramón del Castillo in 1999 as "Forjar Nuestro País: El pensamiento de izquierdas en los Estados Unidos del siglo XX" , an edition containing a foreword by Rorty himself and a glossary by the translator.