Description: Leftist Ontology : Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics, Paperback by Strathausen, Carsten (EDT); Connolly, William E. (FRW), ISBN 0816650306, ISBN-13 9780816650309, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Strathausen (German and English, U. of Missouri) and Connolly (political science, Johns Hopkins U.) present 11 papers from an April 2005 conference organized at Pennsylvania State U. on the topic of constructing a politically leftist ontology (philosophical theory of being). Topics include a critique of Giorgio Agamben's attempt to transcend the realm of sovereign power towards the postpolitical, the continuing importance of capital as an analytic category, the cultural logic of economic privatization in the United States, the relationship between deconstruction and politics, leftist critiques of the political impetus of Jacques Derrida's philosophy, the distinction between politics and the political in deconstructive and post-Marxist French philosophy, the political philosophy of Spanish thinker Maria Zambrano, Lacanian psychoanalysis as the means to overcome the deadlock between metaepistemological critiques of nature and language versus neo-Marxist critiques of late capitalist economic inequality, a nonreactionary politics of melancholia, and the importance of subjectivity for progressive sociopolitical change. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Leftist Ontology : Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Leftist Ontology : Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: History & Theory, Metaphysics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 18.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy, Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Carsten Strathausen
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
