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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left - Couverture souple

Scruton, Sir Roger

 
9781472965219: Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1472965213 ISBN 13 : 9781472965219
Editeur : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019

Synopsis

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 Zizek.

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sir Roger Scruton is widely seen as one of the greatest conservative thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a polymath who wrote a wide array of fiction, non-fiction and reviews. He was the author of over fifty books.

A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Scruton was Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London; University Professor at Boston University, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. He was one of the founders of the Salisbury Review, contributed regularly to The Spectator, The Times and the Daily Telegraph and was for many years wine critic for the New Statesman. Sir Roger Scruton died in January 2020.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Continuum
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1472965213
ISBN 13 
9781472965219
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
304
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