Socialism and Modernity |
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| Author:
| Beilharz, Peter |
| Series title: | Contradictions of Modernity Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-6085-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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This first collection of Peter Beilharz's highly influential thought traces the themes and problems, manifestations, and trajectories of socialism and modernity as they connect and shift over a twenty-year period. Woven throughout Beilharz's analysis is the urgent question of modern utopia: how do we imagine freedom and equality in modernity?The essays in this volume explore the relationship between socialism and modernity across the United States, Europe, and Australia from the...
More DescriptionThis first collection of Peter Beilharz's highly influential thought traces the themes and problems, manifestations, and trajectories of socialism and modernity as they connect and shift over a twenty-year period. Woven throughout Beilharz's analysis is the urgent question of modern utopia: how do we imagine freedom and equality in modernity?The essays in this volume explore the relationship between socialism and modernity across the United States, Europe, and Australia from the mid-1980s to the turn of the twenty-first century, a time that witnessed the global triumph of capitalism and the dramatic turn away from Marxism and socialism to modernity as the dominant perspective.