Walk away : when the political left turns right
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Walk away : when the political left turns right
(Political theory for today)
Lexington Books, c2019
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Kobe University General Library / Library for Intercultural Studies
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject them. Their reevaluation of their own previous positions reveals not only the change in their own thought but also the societal changes in the culture, economics, and politics to which they were reacting. By exploring the evolution of the political thought of these philosophers, this book draws connections among these thinkers and schools and discovers the general trajectory of twentieth-century political thinking in the West.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: James Burnham: From Left to Right
Paul Gottfried
Chapter 2: Pondering the People: Willmoore Kendall's Intellectual Path From Progressive to Conservative Populism
Christopher H. Owen
Chapter 3: "Mugged by Reality": The Neoconservative Turn
Lee Trepanier
Chapter 4: George Grant and Charles Taylor: Canadian Owls
Ron Dart
Chapter 5: Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary Peripateticism
Kelvin Knight
Chapter 6: Benedict Ashley's Reappraisal of Marxism
Christopher S. Morrissey
Chapter 7: Christopher Lasch: A Reconsideration
Jeremy Beer
Chapter 8: The Failure of Marxism through the Frankfurt School and Jurgen Habermas
Pedro Blas Gonzalez
Chapter 9: Analytical Marxism and the Meaning of Historicism: Reflections on Kai Nielsen and G. A. Cohen
Grant Havers
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