The Meaning of Politics

The Politics of Meaning:
Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism
by Michael Lerner
Addison-Wesley, 1996
338 pp $24, $13 paper

Those of us who are trying to rethink left politics cannot avoid coming to terms with Michael Lerner. Many of us have been saying that morality and values must be given a central place in the politics of social justice, alongside traditional left emphases on material need. Others have been looking to recapture “our�...