Beyond Postmodern Politics: Lyotard, Rorty, Foucault
Routledge (1994)
| Abstract | In this book, Honi Haber offers a much-needed analysis of postmodern politics. While continuing to work towards the voicing of the "other," she argues that we must go beyond the insights of postmodernism to arrive at a viable political theory. Postmodernism's political agenda allows the marginalized other to have a voice and to constitute a politics of difference based upon heterogeneity. But Haber argues that postmodern politics denies us the possibility of selves and community--essential elements to any viable political theory. Haber calls into question the postmodern dichotomy of totality or difference. She argues that the self--which need not be coherent or unchanging--is always already a social entity. The "subject" must be understood as a subject-in-community, but any subject is constructed by many different communities. The subject whose death has been dictated by postmodern deconstruction is the very subject whose life is necessary for a politics of difference. Haber develops this theory through a detailed examination of postmodern politics as formulated in the work of Lyotard, Rorty, and Foucault. Beyond Postmodern Politics suggests that we must use the concept of subjects-in-community in order to move beyond postmodern politics and arrive at a genuine politics of difference. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Individualism Communities Difference (Philosophy Political aspects Opposition (Political science Postmodernism Political aspects | |||||||||
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| Call number | JC571.H1714 1994 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780415908221 0415908221 041590823X 9780415908238 | |||||||||
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