Walk Away

When the Political Left Turns Right

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Lee Trepanier, Grant Havers, Assumption University Trepanier, Lee

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-07-19
Mått160 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePolitical Theory for Today
Antal sidor202
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498595193

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Chapter 1: James Burnham: From Left to RightPaul GottfriedChapter 2: Pondering the People: Willmoore Kendall’s Intellectual Path From Progressive to Conservative PopulismChristopher H. OwenChapter 3: “Mugged by Reality”: The Neoconservative TurnLee TrepanierChapter 4: George Grant and Charles Taylor: Canadian Owls Ron DartChapter 5: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary PeripateticismKelvin KnightChapter 6: Benedict Ashley’s Reappraisal of MarxismChristopher S. MorrisseyChapter 7: Christopher Lasch: A ReconsiderationJeremy BeerChapter 8: The Failure of Marxism through the Frankfurt School and Jürgen HabermasPedro Blas GonzálezChapter 9: Analytical Marxism and the Meaning of Historicism: Reflections on Kai Nielsen and G. A. CohenGrant Havers

This is a fine collection of thoughtful, philosophically rigorous, and illuminating studies of major twentieth century leftist thinkers who journeyed rightward. We are offered fascinating and even riveting accounts of radicals coming to grips with and overcoming the dogmas in which they had become immersed. No one, left or right, is immune to the allure of dogma, and this book shows every intellectually serious person the challenge we all face in attaining a genuinely free soul.