Utopian Hope in the thought of Judith Shklar and Richard Rorty

• In Event: American Political Thought: Problems and Potential Solutions

Brief Overview

This paper examines the work of Judith Shklar and Richard Rorty to analyse utopian hope, exploring how it mediates between imaginative possibility and dangerous illusion, contributing to debates on its value and dangers for contemporary politics.

Author

• Ming Kit Wong, University of Oxford