Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 21:06:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Levy and Glucksmann (was Pipes)



Thanks for the sad details. I recall Glucksmann's The Master Thinkers; I
read it when it came out. It was pretty embarassing. Ah well. We in
AMerica also have a long tradition of ex-leftists melting down their
brains after they went over. Very few of them did anything good, I mean,
minimally respectable, subsequent to their switch. Alan Wald has a book,
The New York Intellectuals, which coversa  good slice of this history.

One interesting exception is Kolakowski, whose Main Currents of Marxism,
while virulently anti-Marxist and anti-socialist, is nonetheless a solid
and often useful piece of scholarship. 

--Justin Schwartz




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