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American Academia and the Survival of Marxist Ideas
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American Academia and the Survival of Marxist Ideas

Darío Fernández-Morera Darío Fernández-Morera

September 1996

Praeger

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A detailed analysis of how and why Marxist thought pervades contemporary American higher education and scholarship.

Marxist thought pervades American academic discourse, particularly in the humanities and the social sciences. Fernández-Morera shows why the survival of these ideas is unjustified in the face of their theoretical and practical problems and their historical record.

Fernández-Morera provides a comprehensive critique of Marxist/materialist discourse as it pervades contemporary American scholarship. He examines the rhetorical and ideological underpinnings of the discourse, the socioeconomic circumstances and personality type of its academic practitioners, and its impact on other forms of academic speech. He also exposes the epistemological and ethical consequences of the discourse in light of the history of the 20th century and explains its remarkable success in the academic world.

Being multidisciplinary, the book should challenge many and appeal to those interested in criticism, politics, epistemology, ethics, history, sociology, and even economics. Certainly all those interested in the condition of higher education will find it provocative.
Introduction
The Marxist Approach in Academia I
The Marxist Approach in Academia II
The Pursuit of Power
The Marxist Approach to Ethics I
The Marxist Approach to Ethics II
The Marxist Defenses I: From "Denial" to "Apocalyptic Visions and Elastic Displacement of the Objects of Oppression and the Sources of Liberation"
The Marxist Defenses II: From "Misery as an Ideal" to the "Desperation Defense"
Problems of the Marxist Approach: Practice
Problems of the Marxist Approach: Theory
Conclusion: The Strange World of the Academic Intellectuals
Suggested Further Readings
Index
Endorsements
This book is highly...relevant to the current trends and problems of American higher education as well as the broader and more timeless issues of philosophy and epistemology. It is also an outstanding contribution to the sociology of intellectuals, parts of it reminding this reader of Raymond Aron's classic, ^IThe Opium of Intellectuals^R, of which it is a worthy successor in some regards. A lucid style and thorough documentation enhance the impact of this excellent, highly original study, which in the final analysis is an all too rare synthesis of what people think, how they behave, and how institutions function (or fail to function).—^X^BPaul Hollander, Professor of Sociology^LUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst^R





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