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The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today by Razmig Keucheyan Translated by Gregory Elliott
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A panoramic account of the the world’s leading writers and thinkers As the crisis of capitalism capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives alternatives is felt ever more more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial crucial battlefield, where the the outcome of the crisis will in part be decided, is that of theory. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and innovative ideas. The endeavour to transform the world without falling into the catastrophic catastrophic traps of the past past has been a common element uniting these new approaches. This book—aimed at both the general reader and the specialist—offers the first global cartography of the expanding intellectual field of critical contemporary thought. More than thirty authors and intellectual currents of every continent are presented in a clear and succinct manner. A history of critical thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is also provided, helping situate current thinkers in a broader historical and sociological perspective. perspective. Contents: PART I: CONTEXTS 1 The Defeat of Critical Thinking (1977-93) 2 A Brief History of the 'New Left' (1956-77) 3 Contemporary Critical Intellectuals: A Typology PART II: THEORIES 4 System Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, or the 'Joy of Being Communist': Operaismo Empire and Multitude - Towards a Cognitive Capitalism? The Revival of Theories of Imperialism: Marxism Imperialism: Marxism and Imperialism - Leo Panitch - Robert Cox - David Harvey The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence?: Benedict Transcendence?: Benedict Anderson and Tom Nairn - Jürgen Hambermas and Étienne Balibar - Wang Hui - Giorgio Agamben Capitalisms Old and New: Critique of Cognitive Capitalism - Robert Brenner Giovanni Arrighi - Elmar Altvater - Luc Boltanski 5 Subjects Equality as Event: Jacques Event: Jacques Rancière - Alain Badiou - Slavoj Slavoj ! i i " ek ek Post-Femininities: Donna Post-Femininities: Donna Haraway - Judith Butler - Gayatri Spivak Spivak Class Against Class: E. Class: E. P. Thompson - David Harvey - Erik Olin Wright Álvaro García Linera Conflictual Identities: Nancy Identities: Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, Seyla Seyla Benhabib - Achille Mbembe - Ernesto Laclau - Fredric Jameson Jameson Conclusion: Worksites Index
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Reviews “Explains the key ideas, and the contradictions within them, of authors who are often cited but rarely read.” – Le Monde diplomatique “A precious tool permitting us to escape the whingeing about the mediocrity of thinkers today and to help us anticipate the tremors yet to come.” – Le Nouvel observateur “Written with intelligence and clarity.” – Libération “In this courageous and audacious work, the sociologist Razmig Keucheyan offers a robust . . . panorama of contemporary critical theories.” – Nonfiction.fr “An impressive tour de force, providing us with a summary of contemporary critical theories that is both rigorous and clear.” – Philosophie magazine
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François Maspero (19 January 1932 – 11 April 2015) We see the publisher François Maspero as having played a leading role in ‘smuggling across’ the communist and anti-colonial thought of th e postwar period and preserving its heritage. Indeed, Éditions Maspero is an unavoidable reference point for any discussion of critical publishing in France. Maspero’s output was the theatre of important debates on the far Left in the 1960s and 1 970s, and played a pioneering role in many fields. It was Maspero who published Fanon, the political writings of Baldwin, Malcolm X and Che, anthologies of classic labour-movement works, Althusser’s ‘Théorie’ collection, the journal Partisans… We wanted to ask him about his project and the editorial ambitions that he had at the time. Here we reproduce what he calls an ‘attempt at a response’ to our questions. Continue Reading By Mike Watson / 13 April 2015 / 1 comments
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