Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics : The Betrayal of Politics (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose)

Smulewicz-zucker, Gregory (EDT)/ Thompson, Michael J. (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2015/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781137385154
• DDC分類 320.53

Full Description

Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics is a challenge to contemporary radical politics and political thought. This collection of essays critiques the dominant trends and figures on the left that have distorted the legacy of progressive politics, arguing that they have moved politics away from issues of class and economic power toward a preoccupation with culture and identity. The contributors discuss this new radicalism from the perspective of a more rational form of leftism capable of reviving interest in a more politically relevant form of politics.

Contents

1. Shadia Drury: The Postmodern Face of American Exceptionalism 2. John Sanbonmatsu: Postmodernism and the Corruption of the Critical Intelligentsia 3. Michael J. Thompson: Inventing the 'Political': Arendt, Anti-Politics and the Deliberative Turn in Contemporary Political Theory 4. Alan Johnson: Slavoj Zizek's Linksfaschismus 5. Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker: Illusory Alternatives: Neo-Anarchism's Disengaged and Reactionary Leftism 6. Russell Jacoby: Skimming the Surface: Stanley Fish and the Politics of Self-Promotion 7. Joseph M. Schwartz: Being Post-Modern While Late Modernity Burned: On the Apolitical Nature of Contemporary Self-Defined 'Radical' Political Theory 8. Tom Rockmore: Habermas, Critical Theory and Political Economy 9. John Clark: The Spectacle Looks Back Into You: The Situationists and the Aporias of the Left 10. Warren Breckman: The Power and the Void: Radical Democracy, Postmarxism and the Machiavellian Moment 11. Alison Assiter: In Defense of Universalism