A leftist ontology : beyond relativism and identity politics
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A leftist ontology : beyond relativism and identity politics
University of Minnesota Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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 Végső
- 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
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Description
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 in political philosophy, featuring some of the leading voices of our time.
Contributors: Bruno Bosteels, Cornell U; Christopher Breu, Illinois State U; Nicholas Brown, U of Illinois at Chicago; Sorin Radu Cucu, Manhattan College; George Edmondson, Dartmouth College; Eva Geulen, U of Bonn; Philip Goldstein, U of Delaware; Klaus Mladek, Dartmouth College; Alberto Moreiras, U of Aberdeen; Jeffrey T. Nealon, Pennsylvania State U; William Rasch, Indiana U; Ben Robinson, Indiana U; Imre Szeman, McMaster U; Roland Vegso, U of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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