
Farewell to Postmodernism : Social Theories of the Late Left.
Title:
Farewell to Postmodernism : Social Theories of the Late Left.
Author:
Kuzniarz, Bartosz.
ISBN:
9783653023831
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (324 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Two Orthodoxies -- Naming the System -- The Late Left -- Chapter One: Perry Anderson: Chronicle of a Certain Death -- Against Pseudo-Empiricism -- West of Berlin -- The Merciless Laboratory of History -- The Bulwark of Postmodernity -- A Becalmed Universe -- The Current of the Great River -- Chapter Two: David Harvey: From Crisis to Postmodernity -- Historical-Geographical Materialism -- Three Pillars of Crisis -- Accumulate! -- s/v -- Man -- Time -- Space -- A Flexible Regime -- Time-Space Compression -- A Shattered Whole -- From Here to Eternity -- Chapter Three: Fredric Jameson: Capital is Sexy -- Our Political Unconscious -- Three Levels of Analysis and Three Phases of Capitalism -- The Beginning of the Siege -- The Time is out of Joint -- Coward! -- Reification -- The Mirrors of Postmodernism -- The Principle of Hope -- Socialism for the Rich -- Journey to the Center of Fear -- 1. The boredom of happiness -- 2. Fear of deprivation -- 3. The fear of infantilism -- 4. The fear of closure -- The Moment of Truth -- Maps Found in the Future -- Chapter Four: Terry Eagleton: Socialism And Redemption -- The Intersection of Worlds -- What comes after theory -- The Will versus the Body -- Saints and Dogs -- The Emperor's New Clothes -- Culture and Culture -- Illusions of Postmodernism -- The Ethics of Socialism -- Political Love -- Chapter Five: Slavoj Žižek: Sola Fide! -- Socialism on the Couch -- If There is No God -- Postmodern Ideology -- Marx through Freud -- The Lacanian Critique of Marx -- The Correction of Christianity -- Christianity versus Judaism -- Christianity versus Buddhism -- The Revolutionary Act of Love -- Invisibility and Repetition -- Conclusion: An Impossible Utopia -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
In the late 1960s, a whole pantheon of thinkers regarding themselves as radicals stole a part of the anarchic praxis of late capitalism, turned it into philosophy, and with the resulting set of views turned against the foundations of the system in a purportedly radical gesture. Postmodernism was the name for the superficially revolutionary culture which then came into existence. The thought of the late left appears as the subsequent response to the cunning of the system. The main figures of Farewell to Postmodernism are Perry Anderson, David Harvey, Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton and Slavoj Žižek. The book provides an encyclopaedic introduction to their work, while at the same time seeking to grasp the current trajectory of radical thought.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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