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1 Notes on Contributors Alison Assiter is professor of Feminist Theory in Philosophy at UWE, Bristol UK. She is the author of a number of books and articles including Enlightened Women (Routledge, 1996), Revisiting Universalism (Palgrave, 2003), and Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory, (Continuum, 2009). Her book Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth is forthcoming with Rowman and Littlefield in Warren Breckman is the Rose family endowed term professor of modern European intellectual and cultural history at the University of Pennsylvania and the executive coeditor of Journal of the History of Ideas. He is the author of Karl Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self (1999), European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents (2007), and Adventures of the Symbolic: Postmarxism and Radical Democracy (2013). John Clark is a writer, teacher, and community activist in New Orleans, where his family has lived for twelve generations. He is professor emeritus of Philosophy at Loyola University, teaches for Common Knowledge: The New Orleans Cooperative Education Exchange, and works with the Institute for the Radical Imagination. His most recent book is The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism. He works on ecological restoration, permaculture, and eco-communitarianism on a 83-acre land project on Bayou LaTerre, in the forest of coastal Mississippi. He is a member of the Education Workers Union of the IWW. Shadia Drury is a Canada research chair in Social Justice, a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and professor in the departments of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Regina in Canada. Her books include: Aquinas and Modernity: The Lost Promise of Natural Law (2008), The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss: Updated Edition (2005), Terror

2 276 Notes on Contributors and Civilization: Christianity, Politics, and the Western Psyche (2004), Leo Strauss and the American Right (1998), and Alexandre Kojève: The Roots of Postmodern Politics (1994). She is an enthusiastic essayist whose articles can be found on the op-ed pages of Free Inquiry, as well as Humanist Perspectives, The Humanist, and Philosophers Magazine. She is currently working on two books, Socratic Mischief and Chauvinism of the West. Russell Jacoby teaches history at UCLA. Among his books are The Last Intellectuals, The End of Utopia, and, most recently, Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present. Alan Johnson is the Editor of Fathom: For a Deeper Understanding of Israel and the Region. He was a professor of Democratic Theory and Practice at Edge Hill University before joining the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre in A senior research associate at the Foreign Policy Centre, he founded and edited Democratiya, a free online journal of international politics from 2005 until its incorporation into Dissent magazine in 2009, where he now serves as a member of the editorial board. He was a coauthor of the 2006 Euston Manifesto, a modern statement of social democratic antitotalitarianism. Tom Rockmore received his PhD from Vanderbilt University in 1974 and his habilitation à diriger des recherches from the Université de Poitiers in He is distinguished professor emeritus at Duquesne University, as well as distinguished visiting professor at Peking University. The author and editor of many books, his most recent publications include Before and After 9/11: A Philosophical Examination of Globalization (2011), Terror and History (2010), and Kant and Phenomenology (2010). John Sanbonmatsu is associate professor of Philosphy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. He is the author of The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy and the Making of a New Political Subject (2004) and editor of Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (2012). Joseph M. Schwartz is professor of Political Theory at Temple University. His most recent book is The Future of Democratic Equality (Routledge, 2009). Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker is the managing editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture ( He has written for Dissent, New Politics, German Politics and Society, Critical Sociology, and Contributions to the History of Concepts. His most recent book is Strangers

3 Notes on Contributors 277 to Nature: Animal Lives and Human Ethics (Lexington Books, 2012). He is the editor of the forthcoming The Political Thought of African Independence: A Reader (Hackett). He teaches in the philosophy and history departments at Baruch College, CUNY. Michael J. Thompson is associate professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at William Paterson University. His forthcoming books are The Republican Reinvention of Radicalism (Columbia University Press) and The Domestication of Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield).

4 Index A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 195 Adorno, Theodor W., 112, 192, 196, anarchism, history of, Arendt, Hannah, on deliberation, on judgement, Aristotle, 77 78, 80 83, 87 88, 92 on citizenship, 83 on judgement, 82 autonomy, 88, 140, 207, 223, 266 Badiou, Alain, 2, 7, 103, , 110, 189 Benhabib, Seyla, 170, 181 Bolsheviks, , 247, 252 Brown, Wendy, 175, 178, 181 Butler, Judith, 2, 47 52, 54, 101, 109, , , 259 capitalism, 2, 4, 8, 22, 40, 42, 52, 102, 164, 175, 179, 184, 192, , 211, 213, 216, , 221, 230, 245, 268 colonialism, 26, 28 communitarianism, 86, 165, 166, 177, 183, 233 critical theory, 33, 39, 40, 44, 50, 55, , 196, , 209 Debord, Guy, 57, , , Derrida, Jacques, 2, 42, 59, 181, 244, 260, 268 Dewey, John, 16, 20 21, 27 direct democracy, 6, 8, 126, , Durkheim, Émile, 130 Engels, Friedrich, 191, 193, 195, , 240 feminism, 45 52, 58 Feuerbach, L. F., 193, 195 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 193, 195 Fish, Stanley, Foucault, Michel, 2, 33 34, 39, 45, 49, 58 59, 133, 155, 176, 181, 211 on power, 49 Frankfurt School, , 211 Fraser, Nancy, 172, 181 Freud, Sigmund, 99, 112 German idealism, , 202 Graeber, David, 2, 57, , , , , , 138, Habermas, Jürgen, 101, 168, 172, , on critical social theory, on historical materialism, on the theory of truth, Hegel, G. W. F., 21, 25, 28, 36, 78, 89, 91, 112, 125, 127, 149, , 206, 218, 222, 251, 261, on ethics, 191

5 280 Index Hegel, G. W. F. (Continued ) on Geist, 36, 99 on God, 264 on the law of the heart, 125, 127 Heidegger, Martin, 58, 70, 72, 75, 85 86, 88, 181, 199, 244 on Das Man, 70 on freedom, 75, 85 historical materialism, 195, , 251 Hobbes, Thomas, 86, 244 Horkheimer, Max, , , 209 Husserl, Edmund, 203 identity politics, 46, 150, 164, , 175, James, William, Jaspers, Karl, 70, 72 73, 86 Kant, Immanuel, 112, 179, 192, 193, 195, , , , on the self, , Kierkegaard, Søren, 256, , 266, Korsch, Karl, 191, Lacan, Jacques, 2, 45, 53, 106, 112, 220, Laclau, Ernesto, , 109, 114 liberalism, 3, 27, , 168 Locke, John, 259 Lukács, György, 191, 194, 204 Machiavelli, Niccolò, MacIntyre, Alasdair, 169 Marcuse, Herbert, 41, 60, 191, 196, 211, Marx, Karl, 19, 20, 78, , 113, 130, 164, 167, 181, , 209, , 240, , 251 Marxism, 1, 3, 4, 35, 60, 69, 81, 107, 113, 135, , 195, 197, , 209, 212, , , materialism, 113, , 244 Mill, J. S., 27, 164 morality, 16, 78, 239, 246 national socialism, 100, , 208 neoliberalism, 72, 134, Nicomachean Ethics, 77 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 8, 34, 50, 58, 164, 178, 181 on slave morality, Occupy Wall Street, 2, 56 57, 85, , 125, 133, 134, 141, 143, 250, 252 Paris Manuscripts, 195 Plato, 77, 80, 102, 105, 192, 207, 267, 268 Polanyi, Karl, 173 postmodernism, 15, 16, 22, 25 26, 29, 33 35, 38, 42 43, 45, pragmatism, 16 17, 22, 28, 72 73, 152 Rancière, Jaques, 2, 243 Rawls, John, 90, 163, , 169, 177, 181 Rorty, Richard, on Hegel, 21, 28 on nationalism, on objectivity, 17 and postmodernism, 16 and relativism, on nationalism, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 77, 78, , 164, 240, 246 on amour de soi and amour propre, Saint Augustine, 23 Sandel, Michael, 169, 181 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 242 Schelling, F. W. J., socialism, 59, 113 Sophocles, 107

6 Index 281 Stiegler, Bernard, Strauss, Leo, 181, 193, 239 The Enlightenment, 3, 7, 9, 20, 27, 54, 87, 113, 159, 165, 178, 181, 199, 206, , 269 The Situtationists, Toward a Critique of Hegel s Philosophy of Right: Introduction, 194 universalism, Weber, Max, 73, 77, 130, 132, 167, 181 Whitman, Walt, 20 22, 27 Young Hegelians, 193 Zapatista movement, 6, 122, 134, 250 Žižek, Slavoj, 2, , 220, 252 on democracy, on dictatorship, on revolution, on self-sacrifice, on violence,