Thinkers of the New Left

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Introduction

What is Left?
Resentment in Britain: Hobsbawm and Thompson
Disdain in America: Galbraith and Dworkin
Liberation in France: Sartre and Foucault
Tedium in Germany: Downhill to Habermas
Nonsense in Paris: Althusser, Lacan and Deleuze
Culture Wars Worldwide: The New Left from Gramsci to Said
The Kraken Wakes: Badiou and Žižek
What is Right?

Index of Names

Index of Subjects
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