THE NEW BOOK BY ROBERT MISIK
You often hear this: There is de-ideologisation. »Left« is more of a feeling these days. Premature findings. Because the contemporary left does have a few fragments of theories in its head: Marx's teachings on the contradictions of capitalism; Eduard Bernstein's postulate that reform is possible within the framework of the system; Antonio Gramsci's thoughts on civil society and hegemony; the slightly depressive cultural-critical sound of the Frankfurt School from Walter Benjamin to Jürgen Habermas; Michel Foucault's treatises that power has tended to decenter itself into nodes of power and that the oppressed participate in their domination; a pinch of postmodern theory that the idea of a truth is also just a deception; a large ladleful of Keynes, a small dash of postcolonial theory and a lot of criticism of alienation.
In his new book, Robert Misik provides a fast-paced and amusing description of the chunks that make up contemporary left-wing thinking today, from A for Adorno to Z for Žižek.
Robert Misik, journalist and author
in dialogue with
Andreas Babler, Mayor of Traiskirchen
Lisa Mittendrein, attac (tbc)
Moderation Eva Linsinger, Journalist
Robert Misik
What left-wingers think: Ideas from Marx via Gramsci to Adorno, Habermas, Foucault & Co
approx. 160 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-7117-2030-6.
14,90 Euro incl. VAT.
Published in September 2015
Also available as an e-book