![]() ![]() The main critiques he makes are convincing. About Foucault, he says that the synthesizing poetry of his style rises above the murky sludge of left-wing writing like an eagle over mud-flats, which is itself a lively and imaginative comparison. He focuses his gaze on one thinker after another, summarizing their ideas and commenting on them. It is an elegantly written book and Scruton makes his points fairly. The book is now being reissued, updated with a chapter on Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou and retitled Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left. ![]() However, this is a subject he is clearly passionate about, having worked with underground networks in communist Europe and seen the destructive reality behind the fashionable leftist ways of thinking. In the introduction, he says he is reluctant to return to the scene of such a disaster. Roger Scruton feels this caused his university career to decline. ![]() The publisher was threatened with a boycott and the book was withdrawn from bookshops. British left-wing intellectuals gave it savage reviews. Thinkers of the New Left first came out in 1985, under Thatcher's government. ![]()
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