Imagining the Possible

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93260-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Jean-Paul Sartre originally made the term engagement a part of the existentialist vocabulary following WWII. It imples the responsibility of intervening in social or political conflicts in the hope of fostering freedom. Imagining the Possible opens different windows upon this particular engagement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bronner, Stephen Eric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introductio
Part I:Socialism and Freedom
1.The Socialist Project
2.Persistent Memories:Jewish Activists and the German Revolution of 1919
3.Confronting Nationalism
4.The Sickness Unto Death:International Communism Before the Deluge
5.Looking Backwards:1968 Thirty Years After
Part II:Words and Needs
1.Red Dreams and the New Millennium:Remarks on Rosa Luxemborg
2.The Limits of Metatheory:Political Reflections on the Dialectics of Enlightenment
3.Foundations for a Spirit of Resistance:the War Diaries by Jean-Paul Sartre
4.Remembering Henry Pachter
Poltics and Judgement
Part III:Democracy and its Challenges
1.Transforming the State
2.Ecology, Politics, and Risk
The Angst of Affirmative Action
4.Neo-Conservatism and the New Right in the United States and Abroad
5.Intellectuals, Democracy, and Society

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Eric Bronner is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals New Politics and New Political Science. He is the author of editor of fifteen books, including Moments of Decision (Routledge, 1992), which won APSA's Michael Harrington Book Award.