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A leftist ontology : beyond relativism and identity politics / Carsten Strathausen, editor ; foreword by William E. Connolly.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Philosophy, Marxist.
- Socialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rich with analyses of concepts from deconstruction, systems theory, and post-Marxism, with critiques of fundamentalist thought and the war on terror, this volume argues for developing a philosophy of being in order to overcome the quandary of postmodern relativism. Undergirding the contributions are the premises that ontology is a vital concept for philosophy today, that an acceptable leftist ontology must avoid the kind of identity politics that has dominated recent cultural studies, and that a new ontology must be situated within global capitalism.A Leftist Ontology offers a timely intervention
- Contents:
- The structure of the political vs. the politics of hope / William Rasch
- The function of ambivalence in Agamben's reontologization of politics / Eva Geulen
- Twenty-five theses on philosophy in the age of finance capital / Nicholas Brown and Imre Szemán
- Periodizing the 80s: the cultural logic of economic privatization in the United States / Jeffrey T. Nealon
- Marxist theory: from aesthetic critique to cultural politics / Philip Goldstein
- Is socialism the index of a leftist ontology? / Benjamin Robinson
- Deconstruction and experience: the politics of the undeconstructable / Roland Vegső
- Politics and the fiction of the political / Sorin Radu-Cucu
- The last God: María Zambrano's life without texture / Alberto Moreiras
- Signification and substance: toward a leftist ontology of the present / Christopher Breu
- A politics of melancholia / Klaus Mladek and George Edmondson
- Afterword: thinking, being, acting; or, on the usese and disadvantages of ontology for politics / Bruno Bosteels.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-6793-4
- OCLC:
- 505993987
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