“Caustic, highly recherché, and simply great fun to read for the questing intellectual soul. Conservatism is less extreme, but it also falls on the evil side of the spectrum.

In the left-right framework that the New Left employs, the far right is represented by fascism and Nazism, the most heinous ideologies in history. complex and erudite” – Publisher's Weekly US Roger Scruton - Thinkers of the New Left - Free ebook download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read book online for free. Scruton sees the left-right spectrum as part of the attempt to romanticize the support for communism. “Eminent British philosopher and polymath Scruton gives a sharp-edged, provocative critique of leading leftist thinkers since the mid-twentieth century. The result is a devastating critique of modern left-wing thinking.

Scruton's exploration of these important issues is written with skill, perception and at all times with pellucid clarity. The recently published Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by the British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton is a revised and updated version of a book he wrote three decades ago. In Thinkers of the New Left Scruton asks, what does the Left look like today and as it has evolved since 1989? He charts the transfer of grievances from the working class to women, gays and immigrants, asks what can we put in the place of radical egalitarianism, and what explains the continued dominance of antinomian attitudes in the intellectual world? Can there be any foundation for resistance to the leftist agenda without religious faith? Roger Scruton Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. In addition to assessments of these thinkers' philosophical and political contributions, the book contains a biographical and bibliographical section summarizing their careers and most important writings. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Zizek, Ralph Milliband and Eric Hobsbawm. He conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as: E. Lea reseñas de productos sinceras e imparciales de nuestros usuarios. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. Vea reseñas y calificaciones de reseñas que otros clientes han escrito de Fools, Frauds And Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left en.

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