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Author Scruton, Roger, author
Title Fools, frauds and firebrands : thinkers of the New Left / Roger Scruton
Imprint London, UK : Bloomsbury Continuum, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015
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 人文社會聯圖  HX73 .S42 2015    AVAILABLE    30610020501391
Descript viii, 296 pages ; 23 cm
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Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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?
"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 that are increasingly influential"--Introduction
In a reworking of a book first published in 1985, Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. He questions what the Left looks like today, examines how has it evolved, and considers whether there be any foundation for resistance to the leftist agenda without religious faith
Subject Communism
Socialism
Communists
Socialists
New Left
Right and left (Philosophy)
Right and left (Political science)
Alt Author Scruton, Roger, author. Thinkers of the New Left
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