Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics

Alison Assiter, University of the West of England, UK Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania, USA John Clark, Loyola University, USA Shadia Drury, University of Regina, Canada Russell Jacoby, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Alan Johson, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, UK Tom Rockmore, Duquesne University, USA John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, USA Joseph M. Schwartz, Temple University, USA

"Smulewicz-Zucker and Thompson (both at Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture) offer a new edited volume of essays that examine what they call the subversion of progressive politics. The volume presents essays from noted writers such as Shadia Drury, Alan Johnson, Russell Jacoby, Joseph Schwartz, Tom Rockmore, John Clark, and others. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." (E. C. Sands, Choice, Vol. 54 (2), October, 2016)

• 1. Shadia Drury: The Postmodern Face of American Exceptionalism 2. John Sanbonmatsu: Postmodernism and the Corruption of the Critical Intelligentsia 3. Michael J. Thompson: Inventing the 'Political': Arendt, Anti-Politics and the Deliberative Turn in Contemporary Political Theory 4. Alan Johnson: Slavoj Zizek's Linksfaschismus 5. Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker: Illusory Alternatives: Neo-Anarchism's Disengaged and Reactionary Leftism 6. Russell Jacoby: Skimming the Surface: Stanley Fish and the Politics of Self-Promotion 7. Joseph M. Schwartz: Being Post-Modern While Late Modernity Burned: On the Apolitical Nature of Contemporary Self-Defined 'Radical' Political Theory 8. Tom Rockmore: Habermas, Critical Theory and Political Economy 9. John Clark: The Spectacle Looks Back Into You: The Situationists and the Aporias of the Left 10. Warren Breckman: The Power and the Void: Radical Democracy, Postmarxism and the Machiavellian Moment 11. Alison Assiter: In Defense of Universalism