...Jason Arthur Jason Arthur The Wages of Liberalism: An Interview with Eric Lott Eric Lott established his reputation with the book Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Oxford UP, 1993), which won the MLA First Book Prize...

...José Felipe Alvergue This essay explores the manner in which disavowal exists in the contemporary contexts of liberal democratism, particularly the latter’s participation in Arab alienation, and how it is communicated, consequently, in the maintenance of a cultural hegemony over the signifying...

... for liberation from class domination and build a human community based on social equality and individual freedom is tested against historiographic and sociological research data. Suvin’s own idea about the radical break between the first phase of the development of self-management (1950–70) as a possible...

... consolidated its brand by strategically making anachronistic and shopworn claims for the relevance of modernist aesthetics for postmodern politics. The methodological hallmarks of the movement include the liberalization of previously radical political thought, the reduction of past theoretical interventions...

... and normalized by liberal-capitalist civilization, while those perceived to be exceptional are vehemently criticized. Yet what most thinkers had tried to occlude literary accounts of violence have unconcealed. At least this is one of the insights that emerges in the thought-provoking reflections found in Moira...

.... Wells' ‘Liberal Fascism.’” Journal of Contemporary History 35 . 4 ( October 2000 ): 541 - 58 . Esty Jed . A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2003 . Gouldner Alvin W. The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise...

...Daniel Markowicz © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Daniel Markowicz Whither Socialism (on John McGowan’s American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time [Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2007] and Paul Smith’s Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist...

.... In the face of an ever-suburbanizing mass society in a Fordist socio-economic regime, and in the context of US-USSR global rivalry and the various anti-colonialist liberation movements, the teen rebel made it possible for a generation to express disdain for modern American life...

..., and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature [Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006]; Deak Nabers’ Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, The Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867 [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006]) In recent years, it has become increasingly...

... comments on politics as well as on more specialized pursuits like literary theory. His new book, What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education (Norton, 2006), takes on the conservative backlash against liberalism and defends the humanities...

..., systemic inequality, and liberal geoculture.2 And this renewed interest has been met by a shift in Wallerstein’s assessment of the potential for agency in the present. The contributions toImmanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World (Palumbo-Liu, Robbins, and Tanoukhi 2011a) both engage...

...Timothy Burke © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Works Cited Bauerlein Mark . `` Liberal Groupthink is Anti-Intellectual .'' Chronicle of Higher Education . 12 November 2004 . B 6 - 7 . Bérubé Michael . What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics...

... are dedicated to liberal democratic culture and institutions have an obligation to scrutinize the political landscape for any forms of exclusion that vitiate the ideals that undergird that culture. I do not think that exclusions are hard-wired into liberal democratic culture...

... of political struggle: either'we pursue specific the minnesota review political objectives within a given bourgeois liberal democracy or we resign ourselves to political impotence by adopting the abstract geo-political goals of what Rorty denounces as the "farcically overtheorized view...

... legacy with an enduring, significant impact on China today. Revolution is now a passé word in China and elsewhere. However, revolution and liberation are fundamental precepts in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) history. And despite numerous revisions since Deng Xiaoping’s gaige kaifang...

... Feeling . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Freire Paolo . 1971 . Pedagogy of the Oppressed . New York : Herder and Herder . Gutiérrez Gustavo . 1973 . A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation . Translated by Sister Caridad Inda Eagleson John . New...

...: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (Harvard UP). One of the most prolific critics of her generation, with over a dozen books, three hundred articles, and fifty reviews in prominent journals like The New Republic, Nussbaum bridges the divide between specialized and public philosophy...

...- nized the migrants whose labor created and continues to maintain California as we know it (Prashad 2010: ii) by celebrating Cesar Chavez Day. These two visions of California (iii), as Prashad describes it, reveal the liberal contradiction at the heart of state-sponsored multi- culturalism...

... Party’s promise of a second skin. The final chapters interrogate the numerous literary accounts of new-class self-liberation from the “bondages” of bureau- cratic professionalism, none more notorious than William Styron’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967...

... that he has been forced to negotiate on the terms of the liberal academy that he so despises? As one who in fact suspects that it is primarily liberals, rather than “the right,” who are paving the way to a possible U.S. fascism, I include myself among those who yearn to bypass Horowitz...