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OverviewOne of the notable trends within contemporary critical theory is the re-emergence of communism as a political proposition during a time of global financial crisis. This takes the form of explicit attempts to reformulate a communist project (Badiou), readings of a communist tradition (Žižek), and a reimagining of a communist inheritance (Rancière, Balibar). Within the field of critical theory these positions have tended to pass relatively unchallenged as other theoretical idioms (psychoanalysis, post-colonialism, feminism, post-structuralism) have been occupied in the last few years with archival and micro-level analysis. The poverty of the Speculative turn in object-oriented philosophy has also allowed the contemporary discourse on communism to run unquestioned. Through a series of readings of Derrida, Marx, de Man, fiction, film and contemporary politics this book problematizes the idea of political articulation within the public realm with a view to interrogating and enriching the dominant notion of communism at work in theoretical writing today. It sees in theory a difficult yet essential gesture that ties the questioning of truth to a necessary undecidability that guarantees that truth and its relation to democratic engagement. The Communism of Theory is a riff on a phrase used by Blanchot to describe the curious social bond, means of affiliation and thought, that characterizes writing as testimony within a displaced community of critical readers. This book responds to key topics in contemporary thought and also turns the text of deconstruction in a direction that provokes a challenge to its own traditions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Martin McQuillan (Professor and Dean, Kingston University, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781350010871ISBN 10: 1350010871 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 15 October 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available ![]() This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contentspreface acknowledgements Introduction: The Communism of Theory 1.Derrida's Communism 2.Shakespeare, Marx, Derrida 3.The Origins of Inequality 4.De Man and the Neo-Cons 5.Intervention: Badiou reading Nancy 6.Hannah Arendt in Palestine 7.Derrida and the Black Panthers 8.Plato, Disney, Enron 9.Post-Carbon Philosophy 10.Does deconstruction imply Vegetarianism? bibliography indexReviewsAuthor InformationMartin McQuillan is Co-Director of the London Graduate School. He is PVC (Research), Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, and Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis at Kingston University, London Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |