The End of Commitment
Book (italiano):
To many intellectuals of the twentieth century, supporting communism seemed to be a good idea. A very good idea, in fact. Yet as the century wore on and the attractive theory proved to be repressive in practice, many of those same intellectuals abandoned what they had first enthusiastically embraced. Hollander (sociology emeritus, U. of Massachusetts) examines a variety of workers of the mind, including those who could not turn away from their previous commitment. Working at the level of personal morality as well as within the context of historical events, Hollander examines what it was within the experience of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that attracted and repelled, how conditions in Vietnam, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ethiopia created questions, and how those in the West became disillusioned or resisted it. He closes with commentary about how the personal becomes the political, a situation where "no persuasion can penetrate." Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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