Critical Theory and Political Engagement: From May '68 to the Arab Spring

By Christopher Pawling

Introduction 1. Critical Theory and Radical Politics in the late '60s 2. Marxism and Artistic Commitment 3. Humanism and Post-Humanism: the Antinomies of Critical Theory, Post-'68 4. Rediscovering Commitment: Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx 5. Reviving the Critical Spirit of May '68: Alain Badiou and the Cultural Politics of the 'Event' 6. Badiou and the Search for an Anti-Humanist Aesthetic 7. Totality and the Dialectic in the Critical Theory of Fredric Jameson 8. Back to the Future? From Post-Modernism to the 'Communist Idea'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349324973
• ISBN13: 9781349324972
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"