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happinessisalltherage's review
4.0
Really enjoyed this although that enjoyment dipped with the last two chapters, which deal with the Academic Left’s (his words not mine!) turn to Antonio Gramsci, the Frankfurt School and French thinkers like Derrida and Foucault. His suggestion of abandoning the black hole that is French post-structuralism for thinkers throughout the American tradition is an interesting one. Very readable prose that is not bogged down in statistics or small details. This book is a great good introduction to an interesting, if not often depressing, subject
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