Lexington Books
Pages: 530
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-0750-8 • Hardback • December 2006 • $213.00 • (£165.00)
978-0-7391-1862-7 • Paperback • February 2007 • $76.99 • (£59.00)
Anatole Anton is professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and former chair of the department. Richard Schmitt is professor emeritus of philosophy at Brown University and is currently teaching at Worcester State College.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward a New Socialism
Part 2 Part One: Principles
Chapter 3 Socialist Voices
Chapter 4 Socialist Freedom
Chapter 5 Equality
Chapter 6 Socialist-Feminism: A Cooperative Vision and the Right to Care
Chapter 7 Social Feelings and the Morality of Socialism
Chapter 8 Can We Get There From Here?: Reflections about Fundamental Social and Human Change
Chapter 9 Their Rationality and Ours
Chapter 10 Social Hope and Prophetic Intellectuals in a "Hopeless World"
Part 11 Part Two: Specific Institutions in a Socialist Society
Chapter 12 Socializing Care: Reinventing Family Life
Chapter 13 Schooling in a Socialist Society
Chapter 14 Between Repression and Liberation: Sexuality and Socialist Theory
Chapter 15 The Religion of Liberation: Theology of Liberation and Socialism
Chapter 16 The Right of Association: The Shameful History of a Right Fundamental to Democracy
Chapter 17 Democracy
Chapter 18 The Role of Prisons in a Socialist Future or: The Incorrigible Ethos of Incarceration
Chapter 19 Socialism and Technology: A Sectoral Overview
Chapter 20 Social Justice as an Environmental Issue
Chapter 21 Capitalism, Sustainability, and Climate Change
Chapter 22 Marxism and War
Part 23 Part Three: Promising Social Movements and Their Projects
Chapter 24 Worker Controlled Workplaces
Chapter 25 Challenging the "Market as God" Ideology: Living Wage Campaigns and the Fight for Socialism
Chapter 26 A Politics and a Sensibility: The Anarchist Current on the U.S. Left
Chapter 27 Multiculturalism as Solidarity: Globalizing Resistance
Chapter 28 The New Solidarity: A Case Study of Cross-Border Labor Networks and Mural Art in the Age of Globalization
Chapter 29 The Zapatistas: Lessons for the U.S. Left
Chapter 30 Dear Sup. Much Obliged: An Afterword
Chapter 31 An Afterword to the Afterword: The Zapatista Movement a Decade Later
Intelligent and well-written essays filled with radical visions and sensible, humane policy proposals. This book will be extremely valuable for readers who think we can do better than the present system-and even more important for those who think we can't.
— Roger S. Gottlieb, author of A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet's Future
Recommended.
— H.G. Reid, University of Kentucky; Choice Reviews
...the essays are first class- well written, well argued, and highly engaging....I would certainly recommend the book...
— 2008; Political Studies Review
inspiring and hopeful.... It is an important contribution to socialist thought...
— Against the Current, March 2009
I know of no other work remotely comparable to this anthology. The collection should make a major contribution to public debates regarding the feasibility and desirability of a more democratic alternative to global capitalism. The comprehensiveness of the issues considered also sets it apart. And the authors collected here form a veritable 'who's who' of leading socialist philosophers working in the U.S. today. Without question this is the single best collection of writings by contemporary U.S. socialist philosophers available.
— Tony Smith, Iowa State University