Politics in the impasse : explorations in postsecular social theory
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Politics in the impasse : explorations in postsecular social theory
(SUNY series in radical social and political theory)
State University of New York Press, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-290) and index
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Description
This book contributes a radical politics of community, one that engages with practical questions in the context of hypersecular, postmodern capitalism. Going beyond the bounds of the modern political spectrum of "left" and "right" (even while tunneling within these boundaries and questioning the very idea of the spectrum), Bill Martin moves from the possibilities of rethinking the socialist and Marxist projects, through recent debates on liberalism and communitarianism, the difficult issues of anti-Semitism in Marx and Marxism, and the legacy of Mao for revolutionary practice, to the practical issues raised by the Gulf War and its ideological aftermath and the 1992 uprisings in Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Going Neuromancer
1. Conceiving postsecular socialism
2. Against the strategy of cynicism: radical possibilities in the margins of the postmodern condition
3. Participation
4. Community after liberalism (reflections before Rawls)
5. Toward community: the matrix of liberalism, Marxism, and communitarianism
6. How Marxism became analytic
7. Ethics and the force of history: three possibilities in Kantian political philosophy
8. A postsecular contribution to the debate on abortion
9. The hardest questions: reflections on socialism after Emil Fackenheim
10. Still Maoist after all these years
11. A letter on fascism: some angry, difficult reflections
12. Some things I learned in Berkeley
Afterword: Crazy quilt: points for further research and discussion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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