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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Lasch |
| ISBN: | 0393029166 9780393029161 0393307956 9780393307955 |
| OCLC Number: | 21329880 |
| Description: | 591 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: the obsolescence of left and right -- The idea of progress reconsidered -- Nostalgia: the abdication of memory -- The sociological tradition and the idea of community -- The populist campaign against "improvement" -- "No answer but an echo": the world without wonder -- The syndicalist moment: class struggle and workers' control as the moral equivalent of proprietorship and war -- Work and loyalty in the social thought of the "progressive" era -- The spiritual discipline against resentment -- The politics of the civilized minority -- Right-wing populism and the revolt against liberalism. |
| Responsibility: | Christopher Lasch. |
Abstract:
Traces the anti-progressive, populist tradition of democracy in nineteenth and early twentieth-century movements by artisans and farmers as well as in major thinkers.
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