This book is a meticulous argument for the contemporary value of
Marx's democratic theory as an interpretive key for the
postmodernism debates. Landry uses the works of Derrida, Foucault,
and Lyotard to represent the poststructuralist camp and the
writings of Habermas to represent the rationalist camp. Viable
social critique, argues Landry, mediates between pure social
constructivist and pure realist metaphysics. Postmodernism,
although critical of Marx, aided the broader project of critical
social theory, particularly Marx's critique of social-material
contexts of oppression. Indeed, significant positive affiliations
among Marx, Habermas, and the poststructuralists are found in their
commitment to criticizing ideological aspects of bourgeois
Enlightenment rationality and modernity.
Landry employs a fruitful tension strategy as seeking
rapprochement among the modern and postmodern positions on hotly
debated contemporary issues such as subjectivity, criticism, and
the nature of reason. Marxism continues to provide critical tools
for articulating productive conflict within the postmodernism
debates, advancing of strategies of critique beyond identity
politics toward a more self-reflective ideological discussion of
the multiple axes of power and oppression in political struggles
over democracy. In this unique study, complex philosophical issues
are described lucidly and their relevance for today is established
compellingly.
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