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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Richard Flacks and Nelson Lichtenstein Klappentext Richard Flacks is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Making History: The American Left and the American Mind and coauthor of Playing for Change: Music and Musicians in the Service of Social Movements. Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation Professor in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century and coeditor of The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Zusammenfassung The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. The essays in this volume-including some from original Port Huron contributors-probe the origins! content! and contemporary influence of the document that heralded the emergence of a vibrant New Left in American culture and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction —Richard Flacks and Nelson Lichtenstein Chapter 1. Crafting the Port Huron Statement: Measuring Its Impact in the 1960s and After —Tom Hayden PART I. INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS Chapter 2. Two Cheers for Utopia —Michael Kazin Chapter 3. Port Huron and the Origins of the International New Left —Lisa McGirr Chapter 4. The Romance of Rebellion —Grace Elizabeth Hale PART II. LIBERALISM AND RADICALISM CONJOINED AND DIVIDED Chapter 5. The New Left and Liberalism Reconsidered: The Committee of Correspondence and the Port Huron Statement —Daniel Geary Chapter 6. A Moment of Convergence —Nelson Lichtenstein Chapter 7. The New Left's Love-Hate Relationship with the University —Robert Cohen PART III. PUTTING PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY INTO PRACTICE Chapter 8. The Democratic Process at Port Huron and After —Robert J. S. Ross Chapter 9. A Manifesto of Hope —Barbara Haber Chapter 10. Putting Participatory Democracy into Action —Jennifer Frost Chapter 11. Port Huron and the New Left Movements in Federal Germany —Michael Vester PART IV. LESSONS AND LEGACIES Chapter 12. Did We Learn How to Make Participatory Collectives Work? —Jane Mansbridge Chapter 13. Participatory Democracy and the Fate of Occupy Wall Street —James Miller Chapter 14. Radical Democracy as a Real Utopia —Erik Olin Wright Chapter 15. Philosophical and Political Roots of the American New Left —Richard Flacks The Port Huron Statement Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments ...
