In Achieving Our Country Richard Rorty believes he is offering

practical solutions to human problems which will liberate American

thinkers from outdated philosophical frames of mind. Whether or not
his recommendations for future inquiry are as practical as he thinks is
a subject for much vehement debate. Rorty believes that a unification
of the political Left under a practical, rather than philosophical, banner
will lead to more active and positive political discourse. While he
refutes metaphysics, objectivity and philosophy he takes many of his
supporting ideas from philosophers that he, on some points, disagrees
with and integrates them into his “pragmatic” outlook. The result of
Rorty’s theory is a society based on massive public responsibility that
also allows for romantic intellectual individualism. Rorty remains
optimistic about the merits of his theoretical ideals but they can be
seen as largely problematic and unattainable.