Socialism and modernity /

This first collection of Peter Beilharz's highly influential thought traces the themes and problems, manifestations, and trajectories of socialism and modernity as they connect and shift over a twenty-year period. Woven throughout Beilharz's analysis is the urgent question of modern utopia...

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Main Author: Beilharz, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009
Series:Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 24.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Socialism : modern hopes, postmodern shadows
  • Socialism by the back door
  • The life and times of social democracy
  • The Fabian imagination
  • The Australian left : beyond laborism?
  • Australian laborism, social democracy, and social justice
  • The end of Australian communism
  • Between totalitarianism and postmodernity
  • Socialism after communism : liberalism?
  • Socialism in Europe : after the fall
  • Intellectuals and utopians
  • Modernity and communism : Zygmunt Bauman and the other totalitarianism
  • Looking back : Marx and Bellamy
  • Socialism and America.