The postmodern prince : critical theory, left strategy, and the making of a new political subject /
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| Author / Creator: | Sanbonmatsu, John. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Monthly Review Press, c2004. |
| Description: | 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5207705 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Romancing the Left
- A Romantic Structure of Feeling
- Faith vs. Works
- The Pentecostal Mysticism of Norman O. Brown
- Morbid Symptoms Appear
- The Expressivist Legacy
- 2. Speaking in Tongues
- The Cyborg Speaks in Tongues
- "Breaking the Silence": Postmodernist Identity Politics
- La Lingua Continua
- Expressivism as Reification
- 3. Baroque Theory
- "Use Value" and the Baroque Arsenal of Theory
- Commodity Aesthetics
- Trend Innovation in Theory
- Against the Autonomy of Theory
- Theory as Practice
- 4. The French Ideology
- Althusser, Foucault, and the Liquidation of Experience
- "Two, Three ... Many Geists": Reification and the Automaton Empire
- The Catechism of Praxis
- 5. The Prince and the Archaeologist
- Exemplary Lives
- The Virtu of the Modern Prince
- Strategy and the Modern Prince
- Foucault's "Great Refusal" of Strategy
- Teaching Literacies of Power
- Against Pedagogy
- Reversal of Fortune
- 6. The Postmodern Prince
- Form in Modern Political Thought
- Lenin's Leviathan
- Enter, Stage Left: The Modern Prince
- Unity and Difference: The Challenge of Translation
- The Postmodern Prince
- Totality and Perception
- Toward a New Theory of the Whole
- 7. Metahumanism
- Empathy and Attentiveness to Others
- Humanism, Suffering, and Love
- New Gnosis
- The Fight for Eros
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index