A devastating critique of New Left thinking In Fools Frauds and Firebrands Roger Scruton
first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the
present day. He dissects the hollow works of Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson Galbraith and Dworkin
Sartre and Foucault and exposes the lack of coherence in the works of Althusser Lacan Deleuze
Badiou and Zizek. Scruton ponders why the humanities have become so unambiguously aligned to
the left and reveals how fully such thinking has seized the academy in its grasp. In this
provocative compelling and highly entertaining book he explains why empty rhetoric abounds
over careful analysis and blatant nonsense over respectable logic in a shattering demolition
of some of today's most fashionable philosophers.
