John Sanbonmatsu's Postmodern Prince is a work of political
theory with a focus on questions of strategy. At the same time it
provides an original and illuminating intellectual history of the
Left from the 1960s to the present. It examines the politics of the
New Left in the 1960s, showing how its expressivism led to
political division and also prepared the ground for postmodernism.
It shows also how the political economy of academic life in an
increasingly commodified society strengthened the basis of
postmodernism.
The Postmodern Prince provides a historically grounded critique
of postmodernism, and a history of how the socialist Left has
helped to create its ideas. In the course of this two-sided
critique, it develops a brilliant account of a Marxism that sets
itself the task of building a collective political subject--a
successor to Machiavelli's "Prince" and Gramsci's "Modern
Prince"--capable of challenging capitalism in its moment of global
crisis.
Sanbonmatsu demonstrates the limitations of the work of
Foucault, and more recently, Hardt and Negri's much-acclaimed
"Empire." In the process he validates for Marxism the classical
idea of politics as hegemonic in scope, revolutionary in
aspiration, and dependent on the capacity of leadership to rise to
unforeseen challenges. He draws on an extraordinary range of
historical, political, and philosophical analyses to set out the
preconditions for a renewal of strategic and theoretical vision for
the Left.
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