Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics

Thomas de Zengotita teaches at the Dalton School, USA, and New York University's Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program, USA. He is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University, USA.

• 1. Introduction: Phenomenology, Ideal Types, Narrative.- Part I Essential Background.- 2. The Situation of the Modern Subject.- Part II Modernism.- 3. New Authorities, Works, and Disciplines.- 4. Phenomenology.- 5. The Linguistic Turn.- Part III Masters of Suspicion.- 6. Marx, Freud, Nietzsche.- 7. Critical Theory.- Part IV Postmodern Undoings.- 8. The Mood of the Moment.- 9. Texts and Bodies.- 10. The Anglophone Reception of French Theory:  Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, American Pragmatism, Identity Politics.- 11. Before the Annunciation Came the Virtual.- 12. Conclusion: Toward a New Humanism.