An Infantile Disorder?

The Crisis And Decline Of The New Left
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-02146-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 1107 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement

First published in 1977. The New Left, as an organised political phenomenon, came – and went – largely in the 1960s. Was the Movement that went into precipitate decline after 1969 the same New Left that had developed a decade earlier? Nigel Young’s thesis is that the core New Left, as it had evolved by the mid-1960s, had a unique identity that set

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Nigel (Colgate University, USA)

Young, Nigel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface -- Introduction -- Convergence and Breakthrough -- The New Left: A Core Identity -- A New Radicalism -- After Reformism: the Dilemmas of Extra-Parliamentarism -- The Problem of Agency -- Black Movements in Crisis -- In Search of Ideology -- The New Left in Britain: 1956–70 -- Vietnam and Alignment -- SDS in Flux -- Annus Mirabilis: 1968 -- Turn Towards Violence -- Revolution and the New Left -- Provocation: Response and Repression -- The New Left and the Old -- A Crisis of Identity -- Picking up the Threads -- Appendix: Leninism, Militarism, and Peasant Revolution

Über Autor(innen)

Nigel Young