Radicalism A Philosophical Study [Hardcover]

Confusion, controversy and even fear surrounds the political phenomenon of radicalism. This book attempts to make conceptual and historical sense of this phenomenon, both as a kind of practice and as a kind of thought, before defending it in a traditional if unfashionable form: a form that is historically progressive and politically humanistic.Acknowledgements Introduction The Meaning of Radicalism The History of Radicalism Radicalism and Progress Radicalism and Humanism Conclusion Bibliography IndexPAUL MCLAUGHLIN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is the author of Anarchism and Authority: A Philosophical Introduction to Classical Anarchism (2007) and Mikhail Bakunin: The Philosophical Basis of His Anarchism (2002).