Abstract

From the perspective of the old politics-right, left, and liberal—the New Left is nothing more than incoherent social commentary that should be dismissed in the manner of academic psychological explanation. But even with all the psychologizing that flourished in the interests of soothing troubled consciences the fact remains that the New Left uncovered the "process of the political." Those who remain content with the psychological explanation of the New Left and those who regard the New Left as no more than a historical relic will simply ignore. Howard’s philosophical treatment of the meaning of the New Left; the Left Orthodoxy will find nothing here but further testimony to the heresy of the New Left.