The Telos editorial board has not been unaffected by the progressive disintegration of the left over the last few years, a disintegration precipitated by the rapid fading of the Marxist model — whether Western, Marxist-Leninist, or other — and the inability to substitute a new one to confront the rise of neo-conservatism. Various factions, consequently, have developed that can roughly be identified as Habermasian, post-Adornian (the artificial negativity wing), proto-Freudian, or even post-structuralist. At the same time, the journal's turn toward (...) more political themes has also generated heated internal debate over the German peace movement, feminism, the nature of the Soviet Union, etc. (shrink)

C. Wright Mills was that rarity among American thinkers — a political intellectual — who drew primarily on Western liberal traditions, American traditions of moral pragmatism and craftsmanship, the social classics and methods of sociology, to fashion a unique critical voice. Writing at the end of the liberal era, he brilliantly captured the outlines of a post-modern society he referred to as the “fourth epoch.” In this work, he anticipated and helped shape much of what was good in the American (...) new left, raising questions which remain largely unanswered twenty-four years after his untimely death at age forty-five. Mills argued that the elaboration of reason and culture was necessary to oppose the new “behemoth” of social rationalization. (shrink)

Title: Move Your ShadowPublisher: PenguinISBN: 0140093265Author: Joseph LelyveldTitle: Crossing the LinePublisher: PerseaISBN: 0892553251Author: William FinneganTitle: South Africa Without ApartheidPublisher: University of California PressISBN: 0520057708Author: Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley.