This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject those commitments due to changes in the culture, economics, and politics.

• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 James Burnham
• 2 Pondering the People
• 3 “Mugged by Reality”
• 4 George Grant and Charles Taylor
• 5 Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Peripateticism
• 6 Benedict Ashley’s Reappraisal of Marxism
• 7 Christopher Lasch
• 8 The Failure of Marxism through the Frankfurt School and Jürgen Habermas
• 9 Analytical Marxism and the Meaning of Historicism
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors