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  title info:
    title: Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics
    sub title: Toward a New Humanism
  name:
    name part: de Zengotita, Thomas.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 393 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Thomas de Zengotita.
  subject:
    topic: Political theory
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Postmodernism
  subject:
    topic: Critical theory
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political Theory
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Postmodern Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Critical Theory
  subject:
    topic: Social Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political Philosophy
  classification: JC11-607
  classification: 320.01
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
  identifier: 9783319906898
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90689-8
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