He neither ridicules nor abuses the writers he considers he patiently deconstructs them, first explaining their work in terms they themselves would recognize and then laying bare their warped assumptions and empty pretensions." - Wall Street Journal, "The book is a masterpiece, its rather too clever title notwithstanding. Scruton considers scores of works in three languages, giving the reader an understanding of each thinker's overarching aim and his place within the multifaceted movement known as the New Left.
complex and erudite." - Publishers Weekly "Caustic, highly recherché, and simply great fun to read for the questing intellectual soul." - Kirkus Reviews "onestly assesses the political and philosophical contributions of the Left addresses what is likely our most pressing question: 'Can there be any foundation for resistance to the leftist agenda without religious faith?'" - Catholic World Report "The book is a masterpiece, its rather too clever title notwithstanding. complex and erudite." - Publishers Weekly "Caustic, highly recherché, and simply great fun to read for the questing intellectual soul." - Kirkus Reviews, "Eminent British philosopher and polymath Scruton gives a sharp-edged, provocative critique of leading leftist thinkers since the mid-20th century. He has reworked the manuscript and added sections on the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the political theorist and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek, the anti-imperialist literary critic Edward Said and a few others."Eminent British philosopher and polymath Scruton gives a sharp-edged, provocative critique of leading leftist thinkers since the mid-20th century. Scruton has returned to the book that scandalized his peers. Scruton writes, “the beginning of the end for my university career.” That was just as well he has since gone on to write many highly successful books on a dizzying array of topics-the aesthetics of music and architecture, the meaning of conservatism and sexual desire, the value of fox hunting and wine drinking. Scruton in the future another demanded that remaining copies of the book be removed from stores. One left-wing academic wrote to the publisher, Longman, to advise the firm against publishing anything by Mr. The book provoked a torrent of hostility. Scruton was then employed as a professor of philosophy at the famously progressive Birkbeck College, London, and his attack on these leftist saints was treated as an outrage. In 1985, the English philosopher and polymath Roger Scruton published a book titled “Thinkers of the New Left” in which he systematically exposed the bogus intellectual underpinnings of 14 leftist intellectuals, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, György Lukács and Eric Hobsbawm.
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