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Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory

Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory

Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory
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Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory

Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory

Overview

As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefield, where the outcome of the crisis will in part be decided, is that of theory. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and innovative ideas.

The endeavour to transform the world without falling into the catastrophic traps of the past has been a common element uniting these new approaches. This book – aimed at both the general reader and the specialist – offers the first global cartography of the expanding intellectual field of critical contemporary thought. More than thirty authors and intellectual currents of every continent are presented in a clear and succinct manner. A history of critical thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is also provided, helping situate current thinkers in a broader historical and sociological perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781682319
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 07/02/2013
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Razmig Keucheyan is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the university of Paris-Sorbonne. He is the author of Le constructivisme. Des origines a nos jours and has recently edited a selection from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks in French.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I Contexts 5

1 The Defeat of Critical Thinking (1977-93) 7

2 A Brief History of the 'New Left' (1956-77) 33

3 Contemporary Critical Intellectuals: A Typology 51

Part II Theories 75

4 System 79

Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, or the 'Joy of Being Communist': Operaismo

Empire and Multitude

Towards a Cognitive Capitalism?

The Revival of Theories of Imperialism: Marxism and Imperialism Leo Panitch Robert Cox David Harvey

The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence?: Benedict Anderson Tom Nairn Jürgen Habermas Étienne Balibar Wang Hui Giorgio Agamben

Capitalisms Old and New: Critique of Cognitive Capitalism Robert Brenner Giovanni Arrighi Elmar Altvater Luc Boltanski

Subjects 169

Equality as Event Jacques Rancière Alain Badiou Slavoj Zi&zek

Post-Femininities Donna Haraway Judith Butler Gayatri Spivak

Class Against Class E. P. Thompson David Harvey Erik Olin Wright Álvaro García Linera

Conflictual Identities Nancy Eraser Axel Honneth Seyla Benhabib Achille Mbembe Ernesto Laclau Fredric Jameson

Conclusion: Worksites 249

Index 257

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