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1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Radical impulses. The socialist project -- Persistent memories: Jewish activists and the German Revolution of 1919 -- In the shadow of the resistance: Albert Camus and the Paris intellectuals -- The sickness unto death: international communism before the deluge -- Looking backwards: 1968 thirty years after -- Critical intellectuals, politics, and society -- pt. 2. Words and deeds. Gandhi: nonviolence and the violence of our times -- Red dreams and the new millennium: notes on the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg -- The limits of metatheory: political reflections on the Dialectic of enlightenment -- A teacher and a friend: Henry Pachter -- Remembering Marcuse -- Ecology, politics, and risk: the social theory of Ulrich Beck -- pt. 3. In pursuit of progress. Transforming the state: reflections on the structure of capitalist democracy -- Affirmative action in radical perspective (with Alba Alexander and Kurt Jacobsen) -- The rhetoric of reaction -- Confronting nationalism -- Neoconservatism and the new right in the United States and abroad -- The end of history revisited. |
| Summary |
Jean-Paul Sartre originally made the term engagement a part of the existentialist vocabulary following WWII. It imples the responsibility of intervening in social or political conflicts in the hope of fostering freedom. Imagining the Possible opens different windows upon this particular engagement. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Post-communism.
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Post-communism. |
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Socialism.
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Socialism. |
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Democracy.
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Democracy. |
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Internationalism.
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Internationalism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bronner, Stephen Eric, 1949- Imagining the possible. New York : Routledge, 2002 0415932602 (DLC) 2001048114 (OCoLC)47658935 |
| ISBN |
9780203824412 (electronic book) |
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0203824415 (electronic book) |
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0415932602 |
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9780415932608 |
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0415932610 |
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9780415932615 |
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