Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism
The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism differentiates the "Social Justice Left" from "Cultural Radicalism" and the various social movements for individual freedom.
In The Death and Rebirth ofAmerican Radicalism, Stanley Aronowitz asks the question, "Is there anything left of the Left?" With the rise of Newt Gingrich and his "Contract With America," how is it that conservativism staged such a remarkable recovery after being discounted in the turbulent 1960s? Aronowitz addresses these and other burning issues of contemporary politics.
Stanley Aronowitz is Professor of Sociology and Directorof the Center for Cultural Studies at City University ofNew York. He is the co-editor of Technoscience andCyberculture (Routledge, 1995), and author of DeadArtists, Live Theories and Other Cultural Problems (Routledge, 1993) and The Politics of IdentityN(Routledge, 1991), among many other titles.