Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics ― The Betrayal of Politics

Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics is a challenge to contemporary radical politics and political thought. This collection of essays critique the dominant trends and figures on the left that have distorted the legacy of progressive politics, arguing that they have moved politics away from issues of class and economic power toward culture and identity. The authors discuss this new radicalism from the perspective of a more rational form of leftism that would be able to revive interest in a more politically relevant form of politics.

Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker is Managing Editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture and teaches in philosophy and history at Baruch College, CUNY, USA. He has written for Dissent, New Politics, German Politics and Society, Critical Sociology, and Contributions to the History of Concepts. His most recent book is Strangers to Nature: Animal Lives and Human Ethics (2012) and he is the editor of the forthcoming The Politics of African Independence: A Reader.

Michael J. Thompson is Associate Professor of Political Theory at William Paterson University, USA. His forthcoming books are The Republican Reinvention of Radicalism and The Domestication of Critical Theory.