{"product_id":"foolsfraudsandfirebrandsthinkersofthenewleft","title":"Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger Scruton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 304 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9781472965219\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA devastating critique of New Left thinking\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present day. He dissects the hollow works of Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson, Galbraith and Dworkin, Sartre and Foucault and exposes the lack of coherence in the works of Althusser, Lacan, Deleuze, Badiou and Žižek. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScruton ponders why the humanities have become so unambiguously aligned to the left, and reveals how fully such thinking has seized the academy in its grasp. In this provocative, compelling and highly entertaining book he explains why empty rhetoric abounds over careful analysis and blatant nonsense over respectable logic, in a shattering demolition of some of today's most fashionable philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e1 What is Left?\u003cbr\u003e2 Resentment in Britain: Hobsbawm and Thompson\u003cbr\u003e3 Disdain in America: Galbraith and Dworkin\u003cbr\u003e4 Liberation in France: Sartre and Foucault\u003cbr\u003e5 Tedium in Germany: Downhill to Habermas\u003cbr\u003e6 Nonsense in Paris: Althusser, Lacan and Deleuze\u003cbr\u003e7 Culture Wars Worldwide: The New Left from Gramsci to Said\u003cbr\u003e8 The Kraken Wakes: Badiou and Žižek\u003cbr\u003e9 What is Right?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12244926201891,"sku":"9781472965219","price":30.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/products\/DSC_0891.jpg?v=1663158194","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/foolsfraudsandfirebrandsthinkersofthenewleft","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}