The Politics of Historical Vision: Marx, Foucault, Habermas

by Steven Best, Douglas Kellner (Editor)

Providing an important contribution to current controversies regarding history, social theory, politics, and the Foucault - Habermas debates, this work offers a detailed comparison of the transformative uses of history in Foucault and Habermas, using Marx as a modernist contrast. The book clearly illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of each thinker's theory for the productive analysis of history and society, relating the work of each to current debates over modern and postmodern theory.
 

294 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Steven Best is an American animal rights advocate, author, and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. A writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education described him in 2005 as "one of the leading scholarly voices on animal rights."

Best is co-founder of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS), formerly known as the Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA). His academic interests are continental philosophy, postmodernism, and environmental philosophy. He is known for his post-structuralist notions of revolution, based equally in animal rights and sexual liberation. He is the editor, with Anthony J. Nocella, of Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (2004), which has a foreword by Ward Churchill, and the companion volume on revolutionary environmentalism, Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth (2006).

In December 2004, Best co-founded the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, which acts as a media office for a number of animal rights groups, including the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), though he has said that he is not himself an ALF activist. He came to public attention in 2005, when the British Home Office told him it intended to use counter-terrorist measures adopted in light of the July 2005 London bombings to prevent him from addressing an animal rights rally in the UK. Best responded by alleging that Britain was becoming a police state.

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Reviews

[mahatmanto · Rating 3 out of 5]

lumayan deh,
buat pengantar [karena bahasanya enak, kayaknya pernah jadi bahan kuliah?] memahami modernitas dan posmodernitas. khususnya lewat pandangan steven best yang membandingkan antara marx [sebagai wakil modernitas] dengan foucault dan habermas [yang dianggap waktil dari posmo].
buat penulisnya, posmodernitas adalah proyek pencerahan yang belum selesai, masih bergulat. dia mengikuti habermas.