Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics [electronic resource] : The Betrayal of Politics /
Thompson, Michael J.editor.
Smulewicz-Zucker, Gregory.editor.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The postmodern face of American exceptionalism / Shadia Drury -- Postmodernism and the corruption of the critical intelligentsia / John Sanbonmatsu -- Inventing the "political" : Arendt, anti-politics and the deliberative turn in contemporary political theory / Michael J. Thompson -- Slavoj Zizek's Linksfaschismus / Alan Johnson -- Illusory alternatives : neo-anarchism's disengaged and reactionary leftism / Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker -- Skimming the surface : Stanley Fish and the politics of self-promotion / Russell Jacoby -- Being post-modern while late modernity burned : on the apolitical nature of contemporary self-defined "radical" political theory / Joseph M. Schwartz -- Habermas, critical theory and political economy / Tom Rockmore -- The spectacle looks back into you : the situationists and the aporias of the left / John Clark -- The power and the void : radical democracy, postmarxism and the Machiavellian moment / Warren Breckman -- In defense of universalism / Alison Assiter.
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.
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