Fools, frauds and firebrands : thinkers of the new left /

"In a previous book published in 1985 as 'Thinkers of the New Left, ' [the author] brought together a series of articles from The Salisbury review. [He has] reworked the original articles, cutting out [some] writers ... and including substantial new material devoted to developments th...

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Main Author: Scruton, Roger (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is Left?
  • Resentment in Britain : Hobsbawm and Thompson
  • Disdain in America : Galbraith and Dworkin
  • Liberation in France : Sartre and Foucault
  • Tedium in Germany : Downhill to Habermas
  • Nonsense in Paris : Althusser, Lacan and Deleuze
  • Culture wars worldwide : the New Left from Gramsci to Said
  • The Kraken wakes : Badiou and Žižek
  • What is Right?