Dialectics and Contemporary Politics: Critique and Transformation from Hegel Through Post-Marxism

ISBN-13: 9780415781343 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 192 str.

John Grant

Opis

'Dialectics and Contemporary Politics' develops a full theory of dialectics in order to reset the terms of dialectical critique and affirm its ability to produce radical insights about contemporary society.

Spis treści

Introduction: Critique and Transformation  1. "Hegel again, always . . .": The Ground Zero of Dialectics  2. Critique’s Muse: Althusser’s Adventure with Dialectics  3. Trials of Experience  4. The Depth of Ideology  5. Total Society or Heaps of Fragments?  6. The Logic of Transformative Dialectics 7. Conclusion: Dialectical Futures

O autorze

John Grant is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.　 He has taught political theory and Canadian politics at Brock University and McMaster University.　 His research addresses modern and contemporary political thought, especially critical theory, conceptual frameworks of political criticism and the roles of citizens in democracies, and has been published in Contemporary Political Theory and Science & Society.