Reflections on a Politically Skeptical Era

Name: Reflections on a Politically Skeptical Era
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Reflections on a Politically Skeptical EraAuthor(s): Dennis Wrong\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138514003, 978-1138514003\nSynopsis\nAll of the essays included in the present volume were written between 1995 and 2001. This attests to the timeliness and relevance of Dennis H. Wrong's writings. He notes that the mid-twentieth-century disposition to believe that politics fundamentally consisted of clashes between totalistic worldviews, such as communism, socialism, capitalism, fascism, nationalism, internationalism, and a cluster of \""isms,\"" may have been historically transitional. But politics now appears more nuanced, if no less troubled, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc between 1989 and 1991. Multiculturalism and identity politics, as well as communitarianism flourished in the 1990s.\n\nThe volume is divided into five parts: \""Capitalism--Inequalities and Alternatives,\"" \""Multiculturalism and Ident.