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Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics: Toward a New Humanism: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose

Autor Thomas de Zengotita
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This book explores the origins of the academic culture wars of the late 20th century and examines their lasting influence on the humanities and progressive politics.  It puts us in a position to ask this question: what to make now of those furious debates over postmodernism, multiculturalism, relativism, critical theory, deconstruction, post-structuralism, and all the rest? In an effort to arrive at a fair judgment on that question, the book reaches for an understanding of postmodern theorists by way of two genres they despised and hopes, for that very reason, to do them justice. It tells a story, and in the telling, advances two basic claims: first, that the phenomenological/hermeneutical tradition is the most suitable source of theory for a humanism that aspires to be universal; and, second, that the ethical and political aspect of the human condition is authentically accessible only through narrative. In conclusion, it argues that the postmodern moment was a necessary one, or will have been if we rise to the occasion and seize the opportunity it offers: a truly universal humanism might yet be realized even in—or perhaps especially in—this atavistic hour of parochial populism. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319906881
ISBN-10: 3319906887
Pagini: 265
Ilustrații: XXI, 393 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.83 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Political Philosophy and Public Purpose

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Phenomenology, Ideal Types, Narrative.- Part I Essential Background.- 2. The Situation of the Modern Subject.- Part II Modernism.- 3. New Authorities, Works, and Disciplines.- 4. Phenomenology.- 5. The Linguistic Turn.- Part III Masters of Suspicion.- 6. Marx, Freud, Nietzsche.- 7. Critical Theory.- Part IV Postmodern Undoings.- 8. The Mood of the Moment.- 9. Texts and Bodies.- 10. The Anglophone Reception of French Theory:  Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, American Pragmatism, Identity Politics.- 11. Before the Annunciation Came the Virtual.- 12. Conclusion: Toward a New Humanism.

Notă biografică

Thomas de Zengotita teaches at the Dalton School, USA, and New York University's Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program, USA. He is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University, USA.   

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This book examines the lasting influence of the academic culture wars of the late 20th century on the humanities and progressive politics, and what to make now of those furious debates over postmodernism, multiculturalism, relativism, critical theory, deconstruction, post-structuralism, and so on. In an effort to arrive at a fair judgment on that question, the book reaches for an understanding of postmodern theorists by way of two genres they despised; and hopes, for that reason, to do them justice. The story, in its telling, justifies two basic claims: first, that the phenomenological/hermeneutical tradition is the most suitable source of theory for a humanism that aspires to be truly universal; and, second, that the ethical and political aspect of the human condition is authentically accessible only through narrative. In conclusion, it argues that the postmodern moment was a necessary one, or will have been if we rise to the occasion—and that that is its historical significance.

Caracteristici

Offers an intellectual history of postmodernist thought and its social and political legacies, clarifying some of the most notoriously difficult texts and overturning many commonly held misunderstandings Shows how French theory conditioned the rise of “Identity Politics” in Anglophone settings Emphasizes motive, mood, and biographical anecdote for nuanced and accessible portraits of major thinkers and the questions that motivated them