A Leftist Ontology: Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Leftist Ontology: Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics
By (Author) Carsten Strathausen
Foreword by William E. Connolly
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
24th September 2009
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
111
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 20mm
Description
Rich with analyses of concepts from deconstruction, systems theory, and post- Marxism, with critiques of fundamentalist thought and the war on terror, this volume argues for developing a philosophy of being in order to overcome the quandary of postmodern relativism. Undergirding the contributions are the premises that ontology is a vital concept for philosophy today, that an acceptable leftist ontology must avoid the kind of identity politics that has dominated recent cultural studies, and that a new ontology must be situated within global capitalism.
Author Bio
Carsten Strathausen is associate professor of German and English at the University of Missouri. He is the author of The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900.
