Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics
The Betrayal of Politics
Published on 6. October 2015
Book
Hardback
VII, 281 pages
978-1-137-38515-4 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Smulewicz-Zucker and Thompson (both at Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture) offer a new edited volume of essays that examine what they call the subversion of progressive politics. The volume presents essays from noted writers such as Shadia Drury, Alan Johnson, Russell Jacoby, Joseph Schwartz, Tom Rockmore, John Clark, and others. . Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." (E. C. Sands, Choice, Vol. 54 (2), October, 2016)
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
VII, 281 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-38515-4 (9781137385154)
DOI
10.1057/9781137381606
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Michael J. Thompson | Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics
The Betrayal of Politics
E-Book
09/2015
Palgrave MacMillan
€53.49
Available for download
Michael J. Thompson | Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics
The Betrayal of Politics
Book
01/2014
Palgrave MacMillan
€96.29
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Persons
Alison Assiter, University of the West of England, UK Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania, USA John Clark, Loyola University, USA Shadia Drury, University of Regina, Canada Russell Jacoby, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Alan Johson, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, UK Tom Rockmore, Duquesne University, USA John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, USA Joseph M. Schwartz, Temple University, USA
Content
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