Stephen Eric Bronner: 12 books
Moments of Decision
Political History and the Crises of Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In this expanded second edition, the radical classic Moments of Decision has been updated more than 20 years since it was first published and received the Michael Harrington Book Award. Reexamining observations made after the fall of communism, Stephen Eric Bronner blends political meditation, philosophical...
Blood in the Sand
Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, clouds of ash blackened the skies over New York City, Washington, D.C., and rural Pennsylvania. In the wake of the destruction, the United States seemingly entered a new era marked by radical changes in the nation's discourse and in the policies of the...
Ideas in Action
Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Imagine a world in which means and ends, theory and practice, ideals, values, and interests, are torturously disassociated and yet manifestly linked. That is the world of the 20th century as Stephen Eric Bronner vividly portrays it in his important new work. Now imagine a world in which new traditions...
Socialism Unbound
Principles, Practices, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner's work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal"...
Peace Out of Reach
Middle Eastern Travels and the Search for Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
In Peace Out of Reach, Stephen Eric Bronner offers an intriguing analysis and eyewitness account of the political and ideological conflicts plaguing the Middle East. Sharply critical of the United States' policies in Afghanistan and Iraq and concerned about our nation's declining credibility throughout...
by Stephen Eric Bronner
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives...
The Bigot
Why Prejudice Persists
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America’s leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will surely prove a seminal study, Bronner explores its appeal,...
by Stephen Eric Bronner
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives...
Modernism at the Barricades
Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the movement's leading figures against larger social, political, and cultural trends, he follows the rise of...
A Rumor about the Jews
Conspiracy, Anti-Semitism, and the Protocols of Zion
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In its portrayal of Judaism as a worldwide conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of Christian civilization, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion remains one of the most infamous documents ever written. Despite being proven a crude forgery, the pamphlet managed to pervade twentieth-century...
by Stephen Eric Bronner
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Of Critical Theory and its Theorists is an intelligent , accessible overview of the entire Critical Theory Tradition, written by one of the leading experts on the subject. Filled with original insights and valuable historical narratives, Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists covers the work of major...
Imagining the Possible
Radical Politics for Conservative Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Jean-Paul Sartre originally made the term engagement a part of the existentialist vocabulary following WWII. It imples the responsibility of intervening in social or political conflicts in the hope of fostering freedom. Imagining the Possible opens different windows upon this particular engagement.