American and European Leftist Academia through the Prism of Paul Berman’s A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968

• Authors: Alexander L. Gungov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In his book, Paul Berman outlines a productive framework for a further interpretation of ideas of the leftist thinkers in North America and Europe. This article tries to follow Berman’s approach and to provide a critical stance towards the views of a number of Western social and political philosophers who write after 1968 and even after 1989. My findings confirm Berman’s light irony to this trend of thought but emphasize that some of the works discussed seem to be realistic in avoiding unjustified optimism concerning the leftist position.

Keywords

EN

leftist thought; social and political philosophy; political left; global predicament; subject fetishism; commodification of subjects; simulacrum; global surplus recycling mechanism; sin of the Left

• Publisher: University of Silesia Press
• Journal: Review of International American Studies
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 89-102

Dates

published

2019-12-23

Contributors

author

Alexander L. Gungov

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/rias.7374