Locating the Left in Difficult Times

Framing a Political Discourse for the Present
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-54342-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 213 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3947 g

This book investigates notions of the individual, society, the state, economic relations and historical change that exist in the political left by drawing on contemporary philosophical, political and social thought. Using a discourse perspective, this work brings together the many fractious strains in the left, including social democracy, anarchism, communism and market socialism, and discusses them in terms of their relationships with each other. Not only does the study disentangle the left from liberal capitalism and progressive movements—such as those against racism and inequality—it sees the current left as intertwined with its history and its visions of the future.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hak, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2.  What We Mean When We Talk About Capitalism and the Left.- 3.  Explorations in Discourse.- 4.  The Question of Change.- 5.  Listening to History.- 6.  Institutions and -Isms to 1900.- 7.  A Left Comes into Its Own, 1900-1950.- 8.  Beyond Social Democracy.- 9. The Left Makes History, 1950-1975.- 10.  The Left in Retreat.-11. Current Affairs.- 12. Populism.- 13.  Social Democracy and Market Socialism.- 14.  An Anarchist Prospectus, Communism Revisited, a Dash of Populism.

Über Autor(innen)

Gordon Hak is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Vancouver Island University, CN