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Beyond Postmodern Politics
Lyotard Rorty Foucaul T
by Honi Fern Haber
ISBN: 041590823X
ISBN-13: 9780415908238
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: Routledge
Published date: 1994
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
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In this book, Honi Haber offers a much-needed analysis of postmodern politics. While continuing to work towards the voicing of the "other," she argues that we must go beyond the insights of postmodernism to arrive at a viable political theory. Postmodernism's political agenda allows the marginalized other to have a voice and to constitute a politics of difference based upon heterogeneity. But Haber argues that postmodern politics denies us the possibility of selves and community--essential elements to any viable political theory.
Haber calls into question the postmodern dichotomy of totality or difference. She argues that the self--which need not be coherent or unchanging--is always already a social entity. The "subject" must be understood as a subject-in-community, but any subject is constructed by many different communities.
The subject whose death has been dictated by postmodern deconstruction is the very subject whose life is necessary for a politics of difference. Haber develops this
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Beyond Postmodern Politics: Lyotard, Rorty, Foucault
Honi Fern Haber
Routledge ,1994 ,London . Paperback . Used Book . Honi Fern Haber offers a much-needed analysis of postmodern politics, pointing beyond the insights of postmodernism to arrive at a genuine politics of difference. Beyond Postmodern Politics is a study of three of the most influential thinkers in contemporary philosophy: Jean-Francois Lyotard, Richard Rorty and Michel Foucault. . ISBN: 041590823X . ( more information)
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