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The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject (Paperback)

by John Sanbonmatsu (Author) "Let us begin by returning to that key moment in our recent past when Marxist socialism came into crisis and a new "common sense" about..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: New York University Press; 1 edition (1 Aug 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1583670904
  • ISBN-13: 978-1583670903
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 571,538 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This work provides a historically grounded critique of postmodernism, and a history of how the socialist left has helped to create its ideas. In the course of this two-sided critique, it develops an account of a Marxism that sets itself the task of building a collective political subject.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb work, 9 Nov 2008
By C. Gale "Chris Gale" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This is the most striking and excellent work that brings together so many important threads. It comes at a time when a new humane ethic for the left is so badly needed.

Highly recommended.
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1.0 out of 5 stars A complicated Jainist, 22 Oct 2007
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I didn't realize when I read that this book was a critique of postmodernism that, in style, it would be so similar to many "postmodernist" works. It seems far too complicated for me.

I am not an academician, but it feels like the author could have made his point briefly:
1) Socialists need to be practical.
2) They need to be empathetic to other people and to animals too.
3) We need a sustainable, much less violent, world.

Sanbonmatsu presents what seems like Jainism meets Marxism, although, for some reason, by way of Norman O. Brown, Herbert Marcuse, Antionio Gramcsci, Michael Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others.

I'd suggest you try Rudolf Rocker if you are attracted to liberatarian socialism. He may not answer all the questions that Sanbonmatsu asks, but it doesn't seem for me that Sanbonmatsu does either.
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