RE: [Marxism] Postmarxism/Foucault Query Help

["Bill Hughes" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would also recommend Callinicos' book; the Eagleton book is, in fact, *The
Illusions of Postmodernism* (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996); *After Theory* I
found to be a bit disappointing - a bit obvious in some ways, with some
dubious political conclusions. DEWS, PETER, Logics of Disintegration:
Post-structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory (London: Verso,
1987) is very good. HABERMAS, JÜRGEN, *The Philosophical Discourse of
Modernity*, trans. by Frederick Lawrence (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987) is an
extremely cogent defence of rationalist humanism against Foucault etc.
though, of course, Habermas has abandoned Marxism. James Heartfield's
*Postmodernism and the ?Death of the Subject? Explained* (Sheffield:
Sheffield Hallam UP, 2002) should be good - there's an extract here:
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/heartfield-jam
es.htm



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Subject: Re: [Marxism] Postmarxism/Foucault Query Help


From: "Charlie Parks" <jcparks5550@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> There's also Norman Geras's highly critical review of Hegemony and
> Socialist Strategy in New Left Review ("Post-Marxism?"). Laclau and Mouffe
> replied at length in a following issue ("Post-Marxism without Apologies"),
> attempting to dismiss Geras as a hostile dogmatist who simply refuses to
> see the light about Marxism's "failure, " but his review essay was
> actually quite undogmatic and very thoughtful. He responded to their
> response with another article as well ("Ex-Marxism without Substance").
> These can be accessed at the NLR website
> (http://www.newleftreview.net/index.shtml), but I'm afraid you might need
> a subscription to get to them (they're each a bit too long to post to the
> list).
>
> Also, I believe Alex Callinicos has a recent book out titled
> "Postmodernism: A Marxist Critique," but I haven't read it.
>
Callinicos's book is pretty good, written in the late-1980s, when
postmodernism was beginning to take a hold of all aspects of culture. Other
obvious choices of books include Frederic Jameson's 'Postmoderism or the
Ideology of Late Capitalism', and his more recent 'Late Marxism: Adorno or
the persistence of the dialectic' and Terry Eagleton's 'The Trouble with
Postmodernism' and 'After Theory'. I have on my shelf, awaiting reading,
Christopher Norris's 'What's Wrong with Postmodernism', 'The Truth about
Postmodernism', also David Harvey's 'The Condition of Postmodernity', all
highly critical but not specifically Marxist, I think.

Solidarity,
Ian



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