Bøker av Lewis S. Feuer

Claims that neo-Marxists are wrong when they cite the relative backwardness of colonial peoples and blame the condition on the imperialism of advanced Western nations. History tells a different tale. This book asserts that the results of imperialistic interventions differ as to result in predictable ways.

." . . not only is this 120 page essay comprehensible to a philosophical ignoramus, but it should stimulate thought at the highest level, too."-Times [London] Literary Supplement

Examines the common causal patterns in the development of differing ideologies, arguing that any ideology is composed of three ingredients: a Mosaic myth; characteristic philosophical tenets spreading from left to right, which conform to the cycle of ideas; and it must be taken up by some section of the population who can translate it into action.

In this classic work the author undertakes to show how Spinoza's philosophical ideas, particularly his political ideas, were influenced by his underlying emotional responses to the conflicts of his time