Rorty reviewed

Michael Eisenscher meisenscher at igc.apc.org
Mon Jun 1 18:27:23 PDT 1998


OIL, among its other attractions.

At 02:02 PM 6/1/98 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
>And colonialist, imperialist aquisitiveness. Doesn't Viet Nam have bauxite
or some other valuable metal ? and of course, millions of workers.
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>Charles Brown
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>>>> Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> 06/01 1:13 PM >>>
>Re:
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>>The harsh response to Rorty may have something to do with his
>>penchant for gratuitous, con-baiting asides, such as the one in which he
>>absurdly states that "we caused the death of a million Vietnamese out of
>>sheer macho arrogance." In the course of the book, Rorty sets even
>>liberal teeth on edge with such outlandish statements
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>But we did cause the death of a million Vietnamese out of sheer macho
>arrogance...
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>Brad DeLong
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