4th Edition
Political Pilgrims Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society
By Edward Banfield
Copyright 1998
626 Pages
by
Routledge
626 Pages
by
Routledge
526 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals—from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag— admire various communist systems, often in their most repressive historical phases? How could Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, or Castro's Cuba appear at one time as both successful modernizing societies and the fulfillments of the boldest dreams of social... Read more
Political Pilgrims; 1: Themes; 2: Intellectuals, Politics, and Morality; 3: The First Wave of Estrangement: The 1930s; 4: The Appeals of Soviet Society: The First Pilgrimage; 5: The Rejection of Western Society in the 1960s and 70s; 6: New Horizons: Revolutionary Cuba and the Discovery of the Third World; 7: The Pilgrimage to China: Old Dreams in a New Setting; 8: The Techniques of Hospitality: A Summary; 9: Conclusions Concerning the Nature of Intellectuals, Estrangement, and Its Consequences
Biography
Hollander, Paul
