Radical Relevance: Toward a Scholarship of the Whole LeftLaura Gray-Rosendale, Steven Rosendale State University of New York Press, 01/02/2012 - 296 páginas In an effort to rethink the left, this interdisciplinary collection weaves together some of today's most powerful voices in contemporary left critical thought as they examine the fragmentation of American movements for social change, evaluate what critical scholarship might contribute to the task of renewing (or creating) a more unified and efficacious left, and explore the left's possibly inadequate dealings with many marginalized groups. Representing a diverse range of theoretical perspectives within several "textual" disciplines, the essays assess historical, practical, or speculative models for a "whole left"—a left constituted by a broad range of complexly interwoven interests, including issues of class, environment, gender, sexuality, disability, race, and ethnicity. The book exemplifies the struggles of scholars to work toward a more shared agenda for social change. |
Índice
II LEFT COALITIONS BEYOND THE TRIAD | 67 |
II ITHE ACADEMIC LEFT CRITICAL THEORY AND THE GLOBAL CONTEXT | 139 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 257 |
INDEX | 263 |
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Página 105 - The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
Página 105 - One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are "still" possible in the twentieth century is not philosophical.
Página 162 - ... everyone" is a philosopher and that it is not a question of introducing from scratch a scientific form of thought into everyone's individual life, but of renovating and making "critical...
Página 149 - As an introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular forms of social life , education always presupposes a vision of the future.
Página 62 - The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness.
Página 76 - It is evidently idle to collect money and to fee attorneys for the purpose of doing a thing which cannot be done. Had the disinterested friends of the Indians who are engaged in this work first consulted lawyers on the question of possibility, they would no doubt have come to the same conclusion. The study I have given to the Indian question in its various aspects, past and present, has produced in my mind the firm conviction that the only certain way to secure the Indians in their possessions, and...
Página 218 - Where do we go from here?" that we must honestly face the fact that the movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people here, and one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?
Página 119 - Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but thou shalt fear thy God : I am the Lord.
Página 33 - I did not want to describe an existing Socialist or Communist or Marxist political group . . . primarily because it would have allowed the reader to escape confronting certain political patterns, patterns which still exist and of which our two major political parties are guilty in their relationships to Negro Americans.