Truth, when postmoderns use the term, it can only be As a result, in the final analysis, postmoderns reject the idea of a TRUTH, over-riding any other epistemological reference point. Ideologico-religious movements birthed by the mature phase of theĮnlightenment were dogmatic materialists, significantly this is no longer true of postmoderns.Įnlightenment devotees considered Science (the capital S is a give-away.) as Unnoticed, reason to drop the New-Left label. Power and influence in politics, education, science and media, they are well on Revolution postmodern thinkers care about is cultural. Their kingdoms at Google, Amazon, Apple, Twitter or FaceBook. Typically VERY comfortable with the like-minded postmodern capitalists who rule Individuals labelled New Left typically have no interest in the workingĬlass or in a Revolution overthrowing capitalists. The classic Left thinkers Scruton discusses from the post-WWII period were stillįocused on overthrowing capitalists and the Revolution of the proletariat, after I think should more appropriately be labelled “postmoderns”. What Scruton (and many others) call the “New-Left” Who need sleeping pills when you have Marx’s Das I'm afraid my masochistic tendencies aren't To have read through so much left-leaning/postmodern literatureĪs Scruton has is quite a feat. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Zizek, Ralph Milliband and Eric Hobsbawm.
Here are a few of the authors that Scruton examines: E.
I confess my intellectual pain threshold must be rather lower Scruton is NOT boring to read and does cut to the Scruton does an effective job of dissecting the guilt-mongering the New Left loves so much and also exposing the empty shell at the heart of this worldview. My basic impression about this book: For anyoneįamiliar with Marxist writings, it was well worth the price of the book, the Fools, Frauds and Firebrands by Roger Scruton - A Review
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