Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
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Engelsk
A devastating critique of New Left thinking. In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present day....
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A devastating critique of New Left thinking. In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present day. He dissects the hollow works of Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson, Galbraith and Dworkin, Sartre and Foucault and exposes the lack of coherence in the works of Althusser, Lacan, Deleuze, Badiou and Žižek. Scruton ponders why the humanities have become so unambiguously aligned to the left, and reveals how fully such thinking has seized the academy in its grasp. In this provocative, compelling and highly entertaining book he explains why empty rhetoric abounds over careful analysis and blatant nonsense over respectable logic, in a shattering demolition of some of today"™s most fashionable philosophers.
Detaljer
Forlag
Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN
9781472965219
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
304
Udgivelsesdato
07-03-2019
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3387555
EAN nr.
9781472965219
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.