Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
With elegance and power, Stephen Eric Bronner surveys century political traditions placing theories and thinkers in their social, historical, and political contexts as he presents a new internationalist perspective on the direction of political thinking in the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
The dilemmas of democratic theory -- The liberal heritage -- The communitarian idea -- The conservative disposition -- The anarchist impulse -- The masses in motion -- Socialism -- Fascism -- Communism -- The liberation of subjectivity -- Existential battles -- Critical theory -- Postmodernism and poststructuralism -- The radical imagination -- The logic of the new social movements -- Race -- Sex -- Nature -- The forgotten.