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Marx and the Postmodernism Debates - An Agenda for Critical Theory (Hardcover): Lorraine Landry

Marx and the Postmodernism Debates - An Agenda for Critical Theory (Hardcover)

Lorraine Landry

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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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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2000
First published: September 2000
Authors: Lorraine Landry
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96889-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
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LSN: 0-275-96889-8
Barcode: 9780275968892

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