New Left, New Right and Beyond: Taking the Sixties Seriously

by G. Andrews (Editor), R. Cockett (Editor), A. Hooper (Editor), M. Williams (Editor)

Overview

The 1960s represented a defining turning-point in the politics and cultures of western societies. But what of the lasting political and cultural legacies of the sixties? In this book a range of leading thinkers show how the sixties continue to influence contemporary debates on globalization and democracy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349409952
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/19/1999
Edition description:	1st ed. 1999
Pages:	207
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

GEOFF ANDREWS is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Hertfordshire; Associate Lecturer, The Open University; Editor Citizenship (Lawrence and Wishart 1991); and co-editor Opening the Books: essays on the social and cultural history of British Communism (Pluto Press 1995).

RICHARD COCKETT is Lecturer in History at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is author of Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83.

ALAN HOOPER is Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Hertfordshire, and author of essays on modern British history and contemporary Brazilian politics.

MICHAEL WILLIAMS lectures in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Hertfordshire and elsewhere. Before then he spent twenty years as a civil servant in what is now the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. He has published papers on privatisation and the role of management consultants in shaping public policy.

Table of Contents

Introduction; A.Hooper & M.Williams A Politics Adequate to the Age: the New Left and the Long 1960s; A.Hooper Here and Now! The Legacy of Gramsci in British Cultural Politics; T. Steele Stars and Moons: Desire and the Limits of Marketization; W.Wheeler The New Right, New Labour and the Problem of Social Cohesion; P.Saunders The New Right and the 1960s: the Dialectics of Liberation; R.Cockett We Didn't Know it Would be so Hard: The Short, Sad, Instructive History of the U.S. New Left; M.Gettleman What's Left of The New Left; G.Andrews The Libertarian Left 1968-1998: Battered but not Bowed; H.Wainwright The Long Sixties in the Short Twentieth Century; M.Williams The Rise and Fall of an Anti-Racism: From Political Blackness to Ethnic Pluralism; T.Modood From Berkeley To Blair: A Dialogue of the Deaf?; A.Showstack-Sassoon Associative Democracy; P.Hirst