Critics of Society (Routledge Revivals): Radical Thoughts in North America - Hardcover

Bottomore, Tom B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415581001 ISBN 13: 9780415581004

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

First published in 1967, this essay in the interpretation of radical social thought deals mainly with the radical theorists rather than the doctrines of social and political movements, but makes an exception in an important discussion of the new radicalism of the 1960s. The author's main concern is to lay bare the connections between intellectual dissent and theories of society, and in so doing to to explore the neglected subject of the heritage of American radical thinking.

Readers of this book will not only emerge enlightened by Professor Bottomore's impressive knowledge of American radical thought, but with a greatly increased understanding of contemporary American history. He ends with the question of whether the new radicalism can find a firmer basis than the student movement or the negro revolt; cn produce an ideology both responsive to the doutbs and complexties of our time and capable of directing action to plausible ends.

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Tom B. Bottomore

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415581001
• ISBN 13: 9780415581004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148