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Confronting the Crisis gathers together for the first time the full range of Paul Piccone's best writings from Telos . This anthology traces a compelling intellectual journey, while providing important commentary on the major contemporary issues. It covers the progress of both Piccone's thinking and the journal's project, beginning with early investigations into phenomenology and Marxism, as well as pioneering studies of Critical Theory and "artificial negativity." It includes far-sighted analyses of new developments, such as the rise of the New Class and the decline of traditional divisions between Left and Right, and it leads eventually to a consideration of the political possibilities of federalism and a reinvigorated populism. The title of this collection refers to Edmund Husserl's last major work, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology , from which the title of the journal, Telos , also originated. The loss of the subject of history, i.e., the philosophical-historical idea or teleological sense of European humanity, was the "crisis" that concerned Husserl, and that Piccone examined in all its ramifications. He confronted it with a unique passion and a

Author

and introduced by Gary Ulmen

Publisher

Telos Press Publishing

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780914386384

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Philosophy