Socialism and Modernity

Author:   Peter Beilharz
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9780816660865


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 July 2009
Format:   Paperback
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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: how do we imagine freedom and equality in modernity? The essays in this volume explore the relationship between socialism and modernity across the United States, Europe, and Australia from the mid-1980s to the turn of the twenty-first century, a time that witnessed the global triumph of capitalism and the dramatic turn away from Marxism and socialism to modernity as the dominant perspective.

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Author:   Peter Beilharz
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780816660865


ISBN 10:   0816660867
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 July 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments Introduction: From Socialism to Modernity, via Americanism 1. Socialism: Modern Hopes, Postmodern Shadows 2. Socialism by the Back Door 3. The Life and Times of Social Democracy 4. The Fabian Imagination 5. The Australian Left: Beyond Laborism? 6. Australian Laborism, Social Democracy, and Social Justice 7. The End of Australian Communism 8. Between Totalitarianism and Postmodernity 9. Socialism after Communism: Liberalism? 10. Socialism in Europe-after the Fall 11. Intellectuals and Utopians 12. Modernity and Communism: Zygmunt Bauman and the Other Totalitarianism 13. Looking Back: Marx and Bellamy 14. Socialism and America Notes Publication History Index

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Peter Beilharz is professor of sociology at La Trobe University in Australia. His other books include Postmodern Socialism: Romanticism, City, and State.

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