Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics Toward a New Humanism /

• Main Author: de Zengotita, Thomas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose,
• Subjects: Political theory.; Philosophy.; Postmodernism.; Critical theory.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Political philosophy.; Political Theory.; History of Philosophy.; Postmodern Philosophy.; Critical Theory.; Social Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.

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. I...

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.