Beyond left and right - Anthony Giddens
the future of radical politics
KORTE INHOUD
How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism today? The political radical is normally thought of as someone who stands on the left, opposing backward-looking conservatism. In the present day, however, the left has turned defensive, while the right has become radical, advocating the free play of market forces no matter what obstacles of tradition or custom stand in their way.
What explains such a curious twist of perspective? In answering this question, Giddens develops an new framework for radical politics, drawing on what he calls 'philosophic conservatism', but applying this outlook in the service of values normally associated with the left. The ecological crisis is at the core of this analysis, but is understood by Giddens in an unconventional way - as a response to a world in which modernity has run up against its limits as a social and moral order. The end of nature, as an entity existing independetly of human intervention, and the end of tradition, combined with the impa...
What explains such a curious twist of perspective? In answering this question, Giddens develops an new framework for radical politics, drawing on what he calls 'philosophic conservatism', but applying this outlook in the service of values normally associated with the left. The ecological crisis is at the core of this analysis, but is understood by Giddens in an unconventional way - as a response to a world in which modernity has run up against its limits as a social and moral order. The end of nature, as an entity existing independetly of human intervention, and the end of tradition, combined with the impa...
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