Liberal Progressivism: Politics and Class in the Age of Neoliberalism and Climate Change (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) - Hardcover

Hak, Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367616696 ISBN 13: 9780367616694

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

In Liberal Progressivism, Gordon Hak makes the case for the value of theory and philosophy in understanding the day-to-day political realm of elections, politicians, scandals, fund-raising, and law-making. Running through the book is the big question of how political attitudes and actions are philosophically grounded: why do people believe what they do?

Framed as a debate between liberal progressivism and the Marxist-informed left, and between liberal progressives and the non-university-educated working class, an informant named "Gord" is introduced. Drawing on his life experience he acts as a guide into the worlds of liberal progressivism, the non-university-educated working class, and the Marxist-informed intellectual-left modes of existence that he has personally experienced. In 11 chapters, the book presents an appreciation of nonbinary relationships, open-ended dialectics, complex systems and equilibrium theory, and the importance of emotions in political life.

Through a transdisciplinary approach, the book delves into the interconnecting the worlds of politics, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, and epistemology to produce a celebration of political theory which deserves to be widely read by students, scholars and activists.

About this title

About the Author

Gordon Hak is Professor Emeritus in the History Department, Vancouver Island University, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367616696
• ISBN 13: 9780367616694
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172