Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics: Toward a New Humanism

✍ Scribed by Thomas de Zengotita

Publisher: Palgrave Macmilan
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 397
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Phenomenology, Ideal Types, Narrative (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 1-8
Front Matter ....Pages 9-9
The Situation of the Modern Subject (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 11-53
Front Matter ....Pages 55-55
New Authorities, Works, and Disciplines (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 57-90
Phenomenology (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 91-100
The Linguistic Turn (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 101-112
Front Matter ....Pages 113-113
Marx, Freud, Nietzsche (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 115-126
Critical Theory (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 127-136
Front Matter ....Pages 137-145
The Mood of the Moment (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 147-179
Texts and Bodies (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 181-312
The Anglophone Reception of French Theory: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, American Pragmatism, Identity Politics (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 313-343
Before the Annunciation Came the Virtual (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 345-351
Conclusion: Toward a New Humanism (Thomas de Zengotita)....Pages 353-358
Back Matter ....Pages 359-393

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