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Thinkers of the New Left (1985; second edition 2015) is a book by the English philosopher Roger Scruton, in which he analyses and criticizes the New Left. In the first edition, Scruton concentrates on 14 representatives of the movement: E. P. Read More..

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Description	Thinkers of the New Left (1985; second edition 2015) is a book by the English philosopher Roger Scruton, in which he analyses and criticizes the New Left. In the first edition, Scruton concentrates on 14 representatives of the movement: E. P. Thompson, Ronald Dworkin, Michel Foucault, R. D. Laing, Raymond Williams, Rudolf Bahro, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Immanuel Wallerstein, Jürgen Habermas, Perry Anderson, György Lukács, John Kenneth Galbraith and Jean-Paul Sartre.Scruton, Roger. Thinkers of the New Left. Longman Group Limited, 1985, pp. 10–176.The revised edition was published as Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left. It includes new chapters on the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, Edward Said, Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and the Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, while the older chapters on Laing and Bahro have been removed.According to Scruton, he was motivated to write the book by his travels in communist Eastern Europe, and by his frustration with Western European scholars who did not acknowledge the situation in these countries.
Description	Thinkers of the New Left (1985; second edition 2015) is a book by the English philosopher Roger Scruton, in which he analyses and criticizes the New Left. In the first edition, Scruton concentrates on 14 representatives of the movement: E. P. Thompson, Ronald Dworkin, Michel Foucault, R. D. Laing, Raymond Williams, Rudolf Bahro, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Immanuel Wallerstein, Jürgen Habermas, Perry Anderson, György Lukács, John Kenneth Galbraith and Jean-Paul Sartre.Scruton, Roger. Thinkers of the New Left. Longman Group Limited, 1985, pp. 10–176.The revised edition was published as Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left. It includes new chapters on the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, Edward Said, Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and the Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, while the older chapters on Laing and Bahro have been removed.According to Scruton, he was motivated to write the book by his travels in communist Eastern Europe, and by his frustration with Western European scholars who did not acknowledge the situation in these countries.

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Name	Thinkers of the New Left
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Authors	Roger Scruton
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Language	English
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Pages	277 (first edition)304 (revised edition)
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Isbn	9780582902732
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Publisher	Longman
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Pub_date	1985
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