![]() ![]() ![]() I think should more appropriately be labelled “postmoderns”. What Scruton (and many others) call the “New-Left” Who need sleeping pills when you have Marx’s Das I'm afraid my masochistic tendencies aren't To have read through so much left-leaning/postmodern literatureĪs Scruton has is quite a feat. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Zizek, Ralph Milliband and Eric Hobsbawm. Here are a few of the authors that Scruton examines: E. I confess my intellectual pain threshold must be rather lower Scruton is NOT boring to read and does cut to the Scruton does an effective job of dissecting the guilt-mongering the New Left loves so much and also exposing the empty shell at the heart of this worldview. My basic impression about this book: For anyoneįamiliar with Marxist writings, it was well worth the price of the book, the Fools, Frauds and Firebrands by Roger Scruton - A Review ![]()
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