ABSTRACT

Andre Gorz is one of the most important contemporary socialist thinkers. He has acquired a reputation as an iconoclastic theorist who poses radical questions about the future of the Left. This is the first full length assessment of his work which critically evaluates all of his writings from the 1950s to the 1990s.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter |23 pages

1 Gorz's Political Heritage

Existentialism and communism

chapter |22 pages

2 Workers' Control and Self-Management

A radical strategy for labour?

chapter |27 pages

3 Political Ecology and Socialism

A new vanguard?

chapter |24 pages

4 Reformulating Marxism

Class conflict and the state

chapter |31 pages

7 Utopianism and Welfare

Theses for a future left

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion