{"product_id":"the-postmodern-prince-critical-theory-left-strategy-and-the-making-of-a-new-political-subject-paperback","title":"The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Sanbonmatsu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Sanbonmatsu's Postmodern Prince is a work of political theory with a focus on questions of strategy. At the same time it provides an original and illuminating intellectual history of the Left from the 1960s to the present. It examines the politics of the New Left in the 1960s, showing how its expressivism led to political division and also prepared the ground for postmodernism. It shows also how the political economy of academic life in an increasingly commodified society strengthened the basis of postmodernism. The Postmodern Prince 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 a brilliant account of a Marxism that sets itself the task of building a collective political subject-a successor to Machiavelli's Prince and Gramsci's Modern Prince-capable of challenging capitalism in its moment of global crisis. Sanbonmatsu demonstrates the limitations of the work of Michel Foucault, and more recently, Hardt and Negri's much-acclaimed Empire. In the process he validates for Marxism the classical idea of politics as hegemonic in scope, revolutionary in aspiration, and dependent on the capacity of leadership to rise to unforeseen challenges. He draws on an extraordinary range of historical, political and philosophical analyses to set out the preconditions for a renewal of strategic and theoretical vision for the Left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Sanbonmatsu\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eCritical Theory and Animal Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 274\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 8.92 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53005654786272,"sku":"9781583670903","price":60.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/3qA-wmt1MZ9781583670903.webp?v=1781618927","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-postmodern-prince-critical-theory-left-strategy-and-the-making-of-a-new-political-subject-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}