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Michael Paul Rogin's scholarship profoundly altered the scope, content, and disposition of political theory. He reconstituted the field by opening it to an array of texts, performances, and methods previously considered beyond the purview of the discipline. His work addressed the relationship between dimensions of politics typically split apart - institutional power and cultural forms, material interests and symbolic meanings, class projects and identity politics, the public and the private. Rogin's scholarship enlarges our sense of the borders and genres defining political theory as a field and enriches our capacity to think critically and creatively about the political.
The editors have focused on three categories of substantive innovation:
Demonology and Countersubversion
Rogin used the concepts "countersubversive tradition" and "political demonology" to theorize how constitutive exclusions and charged images of otherness generated imagined national community. He exposed not only the dynamics of suppressing and delegitimizing political opposition, but also how politics itself is devalued and displaced.
The Psychic Life of Liberal Society
Rogin addressed the essential contradiction in liberalism as both an ideology and a regime - how a polity professing equality, liberty, and pluralist toleration engages in genocide, slavery, and imperial war.
Political Mediation: Institutions and Culture
Rogin demonstrated how cultural forms - pervasive myths, literary and cinematic works - mediate political life, and how political institutions mediate cultural energies and aspirations.
Contents
Introduction: The Political Thought of Michael Rogin PART I - Demonology and Countersubversion Chapter 1 Preface [to Ronald Reagan, The Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology] (1987) Chapter 2 Political Repression in the United States (1987) Chapter 3 American Political Demonology: A Retrospective (1987) PART II - The Psychic Life of Liberal Society Chapter 4 Liberal Society and the Indian Question (1971) Chapter 5 The Sword Became a Flashing Vision: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1985) Chapter 6 Two Declarations of American Independence (1996) Chapter 7 Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood, and Cold War Movies (1984) Part III - Political Mediation: Institutions and Culture Chapter 8 The King's Two Bodies: Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, and Presidential Self-Sacrifice (1987) Chapter 9 Herman Melville: State, Civil Society and the American 1848 (1979) Chapter 10 "Make My Day!": Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics (1990) Chapter 11 Protest Politics and the Pluralist Vision (1967) Chapter 12 In Defense of the New Left (1983) Conclusion: Theorizing with Rogin Now
