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Develops a radical politics of community that engages with practical issues such as the Gulf War and the 1992 uprisings in Los Angeles, set against the context of postmodern capitalism.This book contributes a radical politics of community, one that engages with practical questions in the context of hypersecular, postmodern capitalism. Going beyond the bounds of the modern political spectrum of'left'and'right'(even while tunneling within these boundaries and questioning the very idea of the spectrum), Bill Martin moves from the possibilities of rethinking the socialist and Marxist projects, through recent debates on liberalism and communitarianism, the difficult issues of anti-Semitism in Marx and Marxism, and the legacy of Mao for revolutionary practice, to the practical issues raised by the Gulf War and its ideological aftermath and the 1992 uprisings in Los Angeles.Bill Martin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University of Chicago. His previous books include Matrix and line: Derrida and the possibilities of postmodern social theory, also published by SUNY Press, and Humanism and its aftermath: The shared fate of deconstruction and politics.

Author

Martin, Bill, 1956-

Publisher

New York: State University of New York Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585043234

Subjects

Anthropology, Political Science, Science