Radical intellectuals and the subversion of progressive politics : the betrayal of politics /: the betrayal of politics. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker and Michael J. Thompson.
• Editors: Smulewicz-Zucker, Gregory R, 1983-; Thompson, Michael, 1973-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (292 pages)
• Subjects: 320.53; History & Theory; Political; Social & political philosophy; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Liberalism -- Philosophy; Politics and culture; Critical theory; Intellectuals -- Political activity
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137381613; 1137381612
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