Fools, frauds and firebrands thinkers of the new left

By:

Scruton, Roger

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Bloomsbury 2015ISBN:

1408187337
9781472935953

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LOC classification:

HX73 .S422 2015

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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?

Summary: "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.

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	320.5 SC-F (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		134980

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"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.