The Left in Search of a Center |
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| Editor:
| Crozier, Michael
Murphy, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-06497-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1996 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.00 |
Book Description:
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Does leftist political thought have a future? American liberalism is being marginalized, European socialism is exhausted, and cultural radicalism has become little more than a sideshow. Contributors to
The Left in Search of a Center probe questions of how political community can be imagined and constituted in the contemporary world. Together, they make it apparent that the still-emerging idea of political community is anchored in the pluralistic and cross-cultural nature of...
More DescriptionDoes leftist political thought have a future? American liberalism is being marginalized, European socialism is exhausted, and cultural radicalism has become little more than a sideshow. Contributors to The Left in Search of a Center probe questions of how political community can be imagined and constituted in the contemporary world. Together, they make it apparent that the still-emerging idea of political community is anchored in the pluralistic and cross-cultural nature of late twentieth-century Western societies