Isbn: 9780914386452 - a journal of no illusions: telos, paul piccone, and the americanization of critical theory (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In 1968, a young SUNY-Buffalo philosophy graduate student named Paul Piccone started a journal called Telos. No one then could have reasonably expected for it to become an intellectual institution. Originally Conveived as the self-consciousness of the American New Left, the journal soon ranged more widely as its authors introduced European social theory and philosophy to a largely American audience unaware of these traditions. Piccone forged a journal of no illusions that was iconoclastic, skeptical, and yet motivated by the hope that critique and engagement could become constitutive principles for politics and everyday prectices. In this book, an array of authors, many of whom participate.…