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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen Eric Bronner , Dick Howard , Stephen Eric BronnerPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Edition: Second Edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.368kg ISBN: 9780231153836ISBN 10: 023115383 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 22 November 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsReviews<p>Praise for the first edition: This is a humane and erudite book. Bronner's bold analysis of the labor movement in theory and practice explores its past contributions and mistakes, reshapes its socialist legacy for the present, and illuminates the emancipatory project for the future. --Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America Bronner provides one of the finest historical accounts of the socialist tradition yet written. -- New Political Science The integrity of his discourse and his insistence on greater democracy help preserve the idea of socialism as a qualitatively freer society than what we have today in postmodern America. Bronner has written a book which helps prepare the groundwork for the realization of our collective dreams. -- New Politics An interesting, sophisticated, and deeply principled examination of socialism's past and future and will appeal to readers with a theoretical bent and an interest in its emancipatory pro <p>Praise for the first edition: This is a humane and erudite book. Bronner's bold analysis of the labor movement in theory and practice explores its past contributions and mistakes, reshapes its socialist legacy for the present, and illuminates the emancipatory project for the future. --Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America Bronner provides one of the finest historical accounts of the socialist tradition yet written. --New Political Science The integrity of his discourse and his insistence on greater democracy help preserve the idea of socialism as a qualitatively freer society than what we have today in postmodern America. Bronner has written a book which helps prepare the groundwork for the realization of our collective dreams. --New Politics An interesting, sophisticated, and deeply principled examination of socialism's past and future and will appeal to readers with a theoretical bent and an interest in its emancipatory project. -- Praise for the first edition: A humane and erudite book. Bronner's bold analysis of the labor movement in theory and practice explores its past contributions and mistakes, reshapes its socialist legacy for the present, and illuminates the emancipatory project for the future. --Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America Provides one of the finest historical accounts of the socialist tradition yet written. -- New Political Science Bronner has written a book which helps prepare the groundwork for the realization of our collective dreams. -- New Politics An interesting, sophisticated, and deeply principled examination of socialism's past and future and will appeal to readers with a theoretical bent and an interest in its emancipatory project. -- The American Political Science Review Author InformationStephen Eric Bronner is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and director of civic diplomacy and human rights at the Institute for World Challenges, Rutgers University. Chair of the executive committee at U.S. Academics for Peace and senior editor of the internet journal Logos, he has published more than twenty-five books, including Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction; Camus: Portrait of a Moralist; Peace Out of Reach: Middle Eastern Travels and the Search for Reconciliation; and Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. He received the Michael A. Harrington Prize for Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism. Dick Howard is distinguished professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of The Primacy of the Political: A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions and The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |