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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left Book

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 Žižek. 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.Read More

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    Fools, Frauds and Firebrands : Paperback : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC : 9781472965219 : 1472965213 : 23 Apr 2019 : A devastating critique of modern left-wing thinking from a leading political philosopher. In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, philosopher Roger Scruton, one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization, examines the thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left. What does the Left look like today, he asks, and how has it evolved? Is there any foundation for resistance to its agenda without religious faith? Scruton begins with a ruthless ...

  • 1472965213
  • 9781472965219
  • Scruton, Sir Roger
  • 7 March 2019
  • Bloomsbury Continuum
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
  • 2
  • Book
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