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 2015. 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
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 2011. 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 1994. 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 (www.logosjournal.com). 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
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).
Index A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 195 Adorno, Theodor W., 112, 192, 196, 198 199 anarchism, 122 144 history of, 123 125 Arendt, Hannah, 69 92 on deliberation, 77 82 on judgement, 88 91 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, 104 105, 110, 189 Benhabib, Seyla, 170, 181 Bolsheviks, 239 240, 247, 252 Brown, Wendy, 175, 178, 181 Butler, Judith, 2, 47 52, 54, 101, 109, 175 178, 180 181, 259 capitalism, 2, 4, 8, 22, 40, 42, 52, 102, 164, 175, 179, 184, 192, 194 206, 211, 213, 216, 218 219, 221, 230, 245, 268 colonialism, 26, 28 communitarianism, 86, 165, 166, 177, 183, 233 critical theory, 33, 39, 40, 44, 50, 55, 191 192, 196, 198 201, 209 Debord, Guy, 57, 211 212, 220 227, Derrida, Jacques, 2, 42, 59, 181, 244, 260, 268 Dewey, John, 16, 20 21, 27 direct democracy, 6, 8, 126, 134 138, 215 216 Durkheim, Émile, 130 Engels, Friedrich, 191, 193, 195, 201 202, 240 feminism, 45 52, 58 Feuerbach, L. F., 193, 195 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 193, 195 Fish, Stanley, 149 160 Foucault, Michel, 2, 33 34, 39, 45, 49, 58 59, 133, 155, 176, 181, 211 on power, 49 Frankfurt School, 196 198, 211 Fraser, Nancy, 172, 181 Freud, Sigmund, 99, 112 German idealism, 195 196, 202 Graeber, David, 2, 57, 121 122, 124 126, 128 130, 132 133, 135 136, 138, Habermas, Jürgen, 101, 168, 172, 179 180, 199 209 on critical social theory, 199 200 on historical materialism, 200 209 on the theory of truth, 207 209 Hegel, G. W. F., 21, 25, 28, 36, 78, 89, 91, 112, 125, 127, 149, 193 196, 206, 218, 222, 251, 261, 263 264 on ethics, 191
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, 200 209, 251 Hobbes, Thomas, 86, 244 Horkheimer, Max, 191 192, 196 199, 209 Husserl, Edmund, 203 identity politics, 46, 150, 164, 167 173, 175, 178 180 James, William, 16 17 Jaspers, Karl, 70, 72 73, 86 Kant, Immanuel, 112, 179, 192, 193, 195, 198 199, 202 203, 259 260, 262 265 on the self, 259 260, 262 263 Kierkegaard, Søren, 256, 260 264, 266, 268 269 Korsch, Karl, 191, 194 195 Lacan, Jacques, 2, 45, 53, 106, 112, 220, 248 249 Laclau, Ernesto, 101 102, 109, 114 liberalism, 3, 27, 163 164, 168 Locke, John, 259 Lukács, György, 191, 194, 204 Machiavelli, Niccolò, 237 253 MacIntyre, Alasdair, 169 Marcuse, Herbert, 41, 60, 191, 196, 211, 218 219 Marx, Karl, 19, 20, 78, 104 105, 113, 130, 164, 167, 181, 190 206, 209, 212 213, 240, 244 246, 251 Marxism, 1, 3, 4, 35, 60, 69, 81, 107, 113, 135, 191 193, 195, 197, 200 205, 209, 212, 237 238, 241 242, 251 252 materialism, 113, 194 195, 244 Mill, J. S., 27, 164 morality, 16, 78, 239, 246 national socialism, 100, 197 198, 208 neoliberalism, 72, 134, 137 139 Nicomachean Ethics, 77 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 8, 34, 50, 58, 164, 178, 181 on slave morality, 34 35 Occupy Wall Street, 2, 56 57, 85, 121 122, 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, 57 60 pragmatism, 16 17, 22, 28, 72 73, 152 Rancière, Jaques, 2, 243 Rawls, John, 90, 163, 165 167, 169, 177, 181 Rorty, Richard, 15 29 on Hegel, 21, 28 on nationalism, 20 26 on objectivity, 17 and postmodernism, 16 and relativism, 16 20 on nationalism, 20 26 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 77, 78, 127 129, 164, 240, 246 on amour de soi and amour propre, 127 129 Saint Augustine, 23 Sandel, Michael, 169, 181 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 242 Schelling, F. W. J., 260 266 socialism, 59, 113 Sophocles, 107
Index 281 Stiegler, Bernard, 267 268 Strauss, Leo, 181, 193, 239 The Enlightenment, 3, 7, 9, 20, 27, 54, 87, 113, 159, 165, 178, 181, 199, 206, 256 257, 269 The Situtationists, 212 233 Toward a Critique of Hegel s Philosophy of Right: Introduction, 194 universalism, 255 270 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, 107 115, 220, 252 on democracy, 101 103 on dictatorship, 104 106 on revolution, 106 109 on self-sacrifice, 109 111 on violence, 103 104