(H/B) RATIONAL RADICALISM AND POLITICAL THEORY

Παρουσίαση

Paying tribute to one of the more original theorist of the late 20th and early 21st century, Rational Radicalism and Political Theory probes the thought of Stephen Eric Bronner. This collection of essays encompasses themes such as the Enlightenment's radical legacy, the impulse of cosmopolitanism, the rejuvenation of socialist theory and politics, and advances in Critical Theory. These essays make new contributions to many areas of left political theory, while at the same time reflecting on the ways Stephen Bronner's ideas serve to generate a new kind of critical political theory. Blending political and intellectual history, normative and moral argumentation, and forays into the nature of politics itself, this book brings together new voices in political theory to assess Bronner's contributions and pave new paths for the future of political theory.(from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Acknowledgments
Introduction (Michael J. Thompson)
Part I: Reworking the Enlightenment Tradition
Chapter 1. On Organizing, Solidarity, and the Enlightenment (Geoffrey Kurtz)
Chapter 2. Combating Inequalities of the Sexual Kind: Enlightenment Universalism and the Horizon of Inclusion
(Elena Mancini)
Chapter 3. Reason and Enlightenment: The Values of Modernity (Diana M. Judd)
Part II: Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
Chapter 4. The Curious Case of Cosmopolitan Sensibility (Anand Bertrand Commissiong)
Chapter 5. Reclaiming Internationalism for Our Times: The Cosmopolitan Ideal and Human Rights in the Global Era
(Michael Forman)
Chapter 6. The History of Human Rights and Critical Theory (Micheline Ishay)
Part III: Reflections on Critical Theory
Chapter 7. Psychoanalysis and the Rational Subject: The Problem of Agency (Judith Grant)
Chapter 8. Feminism, Tradition, and Ideology (R. Claire Snyder-Hall)
Chapter 9. Embodiment as Resistance: Evaluating Stephen Bronner's Contributions to Critical Theory
(Eric Boehme)
Chapter 10. Marxism, Ethics, and the Task of Critical Theory (Michael J. Thompson)
Part IV: Rethinking Socialist Tradition and Theory
Chapter 11. Socialism: Liberal or Democratic-Republican? (Jason Schulman)
Chapter 12. Concepts, Traditions, and Actions: Rescuing Political Theory from the History of Political Thought
(Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker)
Chapter 13. The Materialist Principle "Unbound": Socialist History and the Reconstruction of a Movement
(Christine Kelly)
Chapter 14. Bronner vs. Fukuyama: 1989, the End of History, and the New Internationalism (Manfred B. Steger)
Appendix: An Interview with Stephen Eric Bronner: The Enlightenment and its Critics (Conducted by Angel Ferrero)