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An Intellectual History of Modern Leftist Politics in the US


An Intellectual History of Modern Leftist Politics in the US

This brief offers an intellectual history of modern-day leftist politics in the US, and argues that it is primarily driven by the pursuit of economic and ...

A.J. Muste | Society for US Intellectual History

... an intellectual and cultural-social history of the modern left. They also ... leftist politics.” Or, as Andrew Hartman puts it, Muste's “life as an ...

The Making of the New Left | The New Yorker

But it changed left-wing politics. It made individual freedom and authenticity the goals of political action, and it inspired people who cared ...

Left vs. Liberal: How Intellectual History Can Help Make Sense of ...

... intellectual history shed light on urgent contemporary issues with historical resonance? The left-liberal divide in American politics—a divide that ...

Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical ...

In an effort to understand contemporary political ambivalence and the plight of radicalism today‚ Mattson looks back to the ideas that informed the protest‚ ...

Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument - Polity Books

Correspondingly, without a strong liberal center, the left becomes sectarian, authoritarian, and worse.

Left Behind, Left Ahead | Society for US Intellectual History

Even more exciting, I think, is the centrality of “capitalism” as the concept with which the Left intelligentsia is wrestling. The shared sense ...

AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY - Johns Hopkins University

• Brandon Byrd, “The Rise of African American Intellectual History,” Modern Intellectual ... Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age ( ...

What New Left History Gave Us : Democracy Journal

Today, historians of the left are more interested in the study of the rise of modern American conservatism, especially its mobilization at the state and local ...

Political and Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, Right and ...

Today, right-wing radical ism is strong. Its intellectual and political roots are found in leftist movements such as populism and the protofascism of the 1930's ...

Why Leftists Should Embrace Our Proud History, from Thomas Paine ...

Because of the need to debunk it. They should have said that it's great to hear an American political figure of the left lay claim to the ...

Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Pasts, and Intellectual History in ...

This paper is a study of post-dissident liberal discourse in the early years of Hungarian political democracy.

Introduction: Towards an Intellectual History of Post-Socialism

Chapters in this book (23) · Introduction: Towards an Intellectual History of Post-Socialism · Liberalism: Dissident Illusions and Disillusions · Conservativism: A ...

Modern Intellectual History: Volume 18 - Issue 1 | Cambridge Core

But this reception has largely overlooked the political origins and implications of the study. This essay resituates Marienthal in the context of its creation ...

The Many Faces of Leftism | A History of Modern Political Thought in ...

Eventually, some radical leftists turned against the communist movement attacking its dogmatism and the Stalinist show trials. At the same time, the rise of ...

Modern Intellectual History - UC Santa Barbara

Radicals in America, a short but comprehensive history of the American left during the last seven decades. They divide the book into three ...

An Intellectual History of Liberalism - Princeton University Press

Through quick-moving, highly synthetic essays, he explores the development of liberal thinking in terms of a single theme: the decline of theological politics.

Left, Liberal or Social Democrat? Traversing Political Affiliation in ...

Students of intellectual and political history, interested in the modern American left, face an acute ambiguity. In thinking about the modern ...

Liberalism against Itself - Yale University Press

The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis · “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post · “A fascinating and combative intellectual history.”— ...

Modern Intellectual History A WELL-TEMPERED LIBERALISM

Intellectual history and the history of political thought are ... The New Left, which for a brief moment nudged American politics toward.