In Defense of History Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda Review
In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda
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Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 0-85345-983-5
Released: Jan 1997
Are nosotros now in an age of "postmodernity"? Even equally some on the right take proclaimed the "end of history" or the final triumph of capitalism, nosotros are told by some left intellectuals that the "modernistic" epoch has ended, that the "Enlightenment project" is dead, that all the old verities and ideologies have lost their relevance, that the old principles of rationality no longer apply, and and so on. All the same what is striking virtually the current diagnosis of postmodernity is that it has so much in common with older pronouncements of death, both radical and reactionary versions. What has concluded, apparently, is non so much another, different epoch just the same one all over over again.
In response, the all-time of today's new intellectuals on the left are returning to historical materialism, to class assay. This collection reflects that motility, pinning postmodernism in its place and time. It exposes the erroneous bases of "pomo" premises, by identifying the real issues to which the electric current intellectual fashions offer false or no solutions. In doing so, the contributors claiming the limits imposed on activeness and resistance by those who see liberating "new times" in the contradictions of contemporary commercialism. What is beingness celebrated in the postmodern calendar, argues Ellen Meiksins Woods, is the prosperity of the consumerist 1960s reflected in a distorting mirror. The instability and economic polarization of the 1990s demand a solid critique of the conditions of capitalism, not endless reexaminations of their "meanings" this is the standard and goal of In Defense of History.
A hard-hitting critique…In Defense force of History brings together fine essays that speak directly to the underlying assumptions of postmoderism and offer a stunning critique of its usefulness in both understanding and critiquing the current historical epoch.
We live in an era that has made In Defense of History indispensable; an era that has delegitimized the practice of sifting through the by for clues virtually the present in a bid to improve the time to come…. Information technology deserves an audience of old believers and young skeptics akin.
Contents & Contributors
Function 1: Introduction
- "What Is The Postmodern Calendar?" by Ellen Meiksins Woods
Role ii: Postmodernism and Intellectuals
- "Where Exercise Postmodernists Come From?" by Terry Eagleton
- "Linguistic communication, History, and Grade Struggle" by David Mcnally
- "The Politics of Cultural Studies" by Francis Mulhern
- "Culture, Nationalism, and The Role of Intellectuals" — Aijaz Ahmad Interviewed (I)
- "Old Positions/New Necessities: History, Class, and Marxist Metanarrative" past Bryan D. Palmer
- "Against Social De(Con)Struction of Science: Cautionary Tales From The Third World" Meera Nanda
Office three: Postmodernism and Movements
- "Bug of Class and Culture" — Aijaz Ahmad Interviewed (II)
- "The Mirror of Race: Postmodernism and the Celebration of Divergence" by Kenan Malik
- "Postmodernism, Feminism, and Marx: Notes From The Completeness" by Carol A. Stabile
- "Marx and The Surround" past John Bellamy Foster
- "Northern Intellectuals and The EZLN" by Daniel Nugent
- "Five Theses On Actually Existing Marxism" by Fredric Jameson
Part 4: Afterword
- "In Defense of History" by John Bellamy Foster
Publication Appointment: January 1997
Number of Pages: 224
Paperback ISBN: 9780853459835
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