Radical intellectuals and the subversion of progressive politics
Subtitle: the betrayal of politics
By: edited by Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker and Michael J. Thompson
Series: Political philosophy and public purpose
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137385154
Subjects: Politics and culture; Liberalism; Intellectuals; Philosophy; Critical theory; Political activity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The postmodern face of American exceptionalism / Shadia Drury; title: Postmodernism and the corruption of the critical intelligentsia / John Sanbonmatsu; title: Inventing the "political" : Arendt, anti-politics and the deliberative turn in contemporary political theory / Michael J. Thompson; title: Slavoj Zizek's Linksfaschismus / Alan Johnson; title: Illusory alternatives : neo-anarchism's disengaged and reactionary leftism / Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker; title: Skimming the surface : Stanley Fish and the politics of self-promotion / Russell Jacoby; title: Being post-modern while late modernity burned : on the apolitical nature of contemporary self-defined "radical" political theory / Joseph M. Schwartz; title: Habermas, critical theory and political economy / Tom Rockmore; title: The spectacle looks back into you : the situationists and the aporias of the left / John Clark; title: The power and the void : radical democracy, postmarxism and the Machiavellian moment / Warren Breckman; title: In defense of universalism / Alison Assiter.