Socialism and Modernity

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Socialism and Modernity
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Peter Beilharz
SeriesContradictions of Modernity
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
ISBN/Barcode 9780816660865
ClassificationsDewey:335
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 15 July 2009
Publication Country United States

Description

This first collection of Peter Beilharz's highly influential thought traces the themes and problems, manifestations, and trajectories of socialism and modernity as they connect and shift over a twenty-year period. Woven throughout Beilharz's analysis is the urgent question of modern utopia: how do we imagine freedom and equality in modernity? The essays in this volume explore the relationship between socialism and modernity across the United States, Europe, and Australia from the mid-1980s to the turn of the twenty-first century, a time that witnessed the global triumph of capitalism and the dramatic turn away from Marxism and socialism to modernity as the dominant perspective.

Author Biography

Peter Beilharz is professor of sociology at La Trobe University in Australia. His other books include Postmodern Socialism: Romanticism, City, and State.