The "Counterculture," Gnosis, and Modernity

Interpretations of the 1960s have tended to fall into two general camps. One group consists in those who trace perceived social ills back to that period, like a colleague who, morosely contemplating the failures of academe, said that one couldn't begin to rebuild the humanities and social sciences until the generation forged in that era had retired. Another group consists in those for whom the 1960s represent the birth of a still unfinished social revolution, and for them, the era is comprehensible chiefly through Marxist interpretive lenses. The former is a pessimistic narrative of social decline and fragmentation; the latter

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• Overcoming ‘Gnosticism’? Realism as political theology

  Vassilios Paipais•Cambridge Review of International…•2015

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