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Fools, frauds and firebrands : thinkers of the new left / Roger Scruton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scruton, Roger, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Left.
- Right and left (Philosophy).
- Right and left (Political science).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 296 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury, 2015.
- 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.
- 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?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1408187337
- 9781408187333
- OCLC:
- 898419090
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