The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism differentiates the "Social Justice Left" from "Cultural Radicalism" and the various social movements for individual freedom.
In The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism, Stanley Aronowitz asks the question, "Is there anything left of the Left?" With the rise of Newt Gingrich and his "Contract With America," how is it that conservativism staged such a remarkable recovery after being discounted in the turbulent 1960s? Aronowitz addresses these and other burning issues of contemporary politics.
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism differentiates the "Social Justice Left" from "Cultural Radicalism" and the various social movements for individual freedom.
In The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism, Stanley Aronowitz asks the question, "Is there anything left of the Left " With the rise of Newt Gingrich and his "Contract With America," how is it that conservativism staged such a remarkable recovery after being discounted in the turbulent 1960s? Aronowitz addresses these and other burning issues of contemporary politics.
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"Aronowitz brings masterful insights to this eminent documentation of formerly prophetic but now sleepy radical movements. But the future is not dead, he maintains, it is just resting." -- Publisher's Weekly
Introduction The Death of the Left;
Chapter 1 When the New Left Was New;
Chapter 2 The New Left;
Chapter 3 The Situation of the Left in the United States;
Chapter 4 Against the Liberal State;
Chapter 5 Toward a Politics of Alternatives;
Chapter 6 Toward a Politics of Alternatives;
Stanley Aronowitz is Professor of Sociology and Directorof the Center for Cultural Studies at City University ofNew York. He is the co-editor of Technoscience andCyberculture (Routledge, 1995), and author of DeadArtists, Live Theories and Other Cultural Problems (Routledge, 1993) and The Politics of IdentityN(Routledge, 1991), among many other titles.
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