Rorty wrote his Achieving Our Country as a philosopher, intellectual, academic and citizen, and each of these perspectives leads to a different emphasis in reading his book, and to a different story (and ‘storytelling’ is one of the themes of the book). The emergent pictures vary: the philosopher tells a story of the growing isolation and cultural sterility of analytic philosophy in the United ...

The manifestation of Russian imperial ambitions in February 2022 caught many around the world by surprise, but Ukrainian scholarly attempts at decolonization had been ongoing for years prior to invasion. Intellectuals have strived re-imagine identity beyond conceptualization country discourse as ‘little Russia’. This paper examines how phenomenon intelligentsia has re-interpreted, performing a ...