Beyond Postmodern Politics: Lyotard, Rorty, Foucault

ISBN-13: 9780415908238 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 208 str.

Honi Fern Haber;Honi Fern Haber

Opis

Through a detailed examination of the work of Lyotard, Rorty and Foucault, this text claims that postmodern politics denies the possibility of selves and community. The author argues that this denial does not allow the creation of a politics of difference, where the marginalized have a voice and differences between individuals and groups are accepted. She proposes a theory in which the subject is understood as a subject-in-the-community, while accepting that we are constructed by different communities.

In this book, Honi Haber offers a much-needed analysis of postmodern politics. While continuing to work towards the voicing of the "other," she argues that we must go beyond the insights of postmodernism to arrive at a viable political theory. Postmodernism's political agenda allows the marginalized other to have a voice and to constitute a politics of difference based upon heterogeneity. But Haber argues that postmodern politics denies us the possibility of selves and community--essential elements to any viable political theory.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1 Lyotard 2 Rorty 3 Foucault 4 Evaluating 'Post Philosophies" For Oppositional Politics; Selves, Community and the Politics of Difference.

O autorze

Honi Fern Haber is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver.