The Left in Search of a Center

by Crozier, Michael; Murphy, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780252064975
• ISBN10: 0252064976
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Does leftist political thought have a future? American liberalism is being marginalized, European socialism is exhausted, and cultural radicalism has become little more than a sideshow. Contributors to The Left in Search of a Center probe questions of how political community can be imagined and constituted in the contemporary world. Together, they make it apparent that the still-emerging idea of political community is anchored in the pluralistic and cross-cultural nature of late twentieth-century Western societies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Searching for the Civic Center	p. 1
The Status of Hope at the End of the Century	p. 31
From Rationalization to Reflexivity	p. 43
Inter putatorem et vastitatem: The Ambivalences of the Garden Metaphor in Modernity	p. 64
Border Closures	p. 86
Power and Rationality: The Western Concept of Political Community	p. 103
Classicism, Modernism, and Pluralism	p. 118
To Think What We Are Doing: Reconsidering Citizenship and Philosophy	p. 140
The Marxian Legacy and the Problem of Democracy	p. 162
Libertarian Confederalism and Green Politics: A Perspective on European Unification	p. 179
Contributors	p. 211
Index	p. 213
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