on P fave Henry Adams leading on to P remark

[Mark Kohut]

"Henry Adams was, of course, the great exception--the great abstainer from
politics.
But William Jams thought that Adams' diagnosis of the First Gilded age as a
symptom
of irreversible moral and political decline was merely perverse. Jame'ss
pragmatist theory of truth
was in part a reaction against the sort of detached spectatorship which
Adams offered.....
.......
Novels like Silko's [Almanac of the Dead], Stephenson's [Snow Crash].
Mailer's [Harlot's Ghost] and Pynchon's [Vineland] are our equivalent of
Adams' resigned pessimism.....
                          ----Achieving our Country, Richard Rorty, 1997
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