The Left as the Counterculture of Modernity

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ID20046794
AuthorsZygmunt Bauman (corresponding author)
Year1995
Pages356-370
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueSocial Movements (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-23747-0_15
OpenAlexW2324857444
ISBN9781349237470
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The Left is characterized by its lack of humor. This has set it apart from other forms of opposition to capitalism, e.g., avant-garde art. The latter's irony, self-mockery, and playfulness was a lèse-majesté to the Left as much as it was to the priests of the establishment. Épater-le-bourgeois has never been a Left strategy, because the Left has treated le bourgeois seriously as the author of a project the Left thought worth fulfilling and as the hindrance to its fulfilment at the same time.KeywordsIndividual AutonomyMaterial WealthPolitical DemocracyConsumer SocietyDemocratic ControlThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Avant garde · Bourgeoisie · Capitalism · Counterculture · Epistemology · Irony · Left behind · Literature · Modernity · New Left · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temporality · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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