Beyond Left and Right

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ISBN: 9780804724517 | 0804724512
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/1/1994

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In the wake of the cataclysmic changes that have transformed the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries since 1989, what can it mean to be politically radical today? In this conceptually powerful work, the author applies his well-known and influential body of ideas about modernity to the present state and future of radical politics.

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Globalization, tradition, uncertainty	p. 4
Socialism, conservatism and neoliberalism	p. 8
A framework for radical politics	p. 11
Coda: the question of agency	p. 20
Conservatism: Radicalism Embraced	p. 22
Old Conservatism	p. 24
Conservatism, conservatisms	p. 27
Conservatism and neoliberalism	p. 37
Conservatism and social change	p. 41
Conservatism and the concept of tradition	p. 45
Socialism: the Retreat from Radicalism	p. 51
Socialism and the question of history	p. 52
Socialism and democracy	p. 59
Revolutionary socialism	p. 62
Limits of the cybernetic model	p. 66
Socialism and the welfare state	p. 69
The Social Revolutions of our Time	p. 78
Simple and reflexive modernization	p. 80
Structural consequences	p. 87
The advent of life politics	p. 90
Social change and the role of active trust	p. 92
Manufactured uncertainty and global risk environments	p. 97
Two Theories of Democratization	p. 104
The popularity of democracy	p. 104
An alternative view	p. 110
Participation, representation, dialogue	p. 112
What is democracy?	p. 113
Dialogic democracies	p. 117
Democracy and the problem of solidarity	p. 124
Democracy, inequality and power	p. 132
Contradictions of the Welfare State	p. 134
Structural sources of the welfare state	p. 134
Problems of welfare: work and class	p. 139
The question of the underclass	p. 144
The future of welfare: a preliminary orientation	p. 149
Generative Politics and Positive Welfare	p. 151
Welfare systems and manufactured uncertainty	p. 151
Arguments from global poverty	p. 157
An alternative development	p. 163
The structural diamond	p. 168
Positive Welfare, Poverty and Life Values	p. 174
Work, productivism, productivity	p. 175
From the welfare state to positive welfare	p. 180
Welfare in a post-scarcity society	p. 182
Class divisions and social conflicts	p. 188
The affluent against the poor? A generative model of equality	p. 190
Modernity under a Negative Sign: Ecological Issues and Life Politics	p. 198
Thinking about nature	p. 202
Nature: living in and with it	p. 208
Questions of reproduction	p. 212
The order of high-consequence risks	p. 219
Environment, personhood	p. 223
Conclusion	p. 227
Political Theory and the Problem of Violence	p. 229
The state and pacification	p. 231
Masculinity and war	p. 235
Violence, ethnic and cultural difference	p. 242
Questions of Agency and Values	p. 246
Notes	p. 254
Index	p. 263
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