Makalah dan catatan pikiran ini menggambarkan pergumulan yang tengah berlangsung di kalangan LSM, yang beberapa langkah lebih maju dari berbagai sarasehan sebelumnya. Jalan terasa panjang dan remang remang. Kutub lutub pandangan masih terentang panjang antara yang memandang jauh kedepan bahkan ke eutopia, dan yang melihat dekat ke sekitar antara yang cenderung teoritik dan yang mau praktik prag…
Politik Jokowi - Basuki adalah politik antipencitraan. Selama kampanye hingga hari-hari menjabat menjadi gubernur - wakil gubernur, ada pelbagai gebrakan, baik di lingkungan pemda maupun kantor-kantor dinas. Sepertinya, Jakarta Baru yang menjadi visi mereka memang benar-benar akan terlaksana. Kini giliran kita untuk memantau kinerja mereka, supaya visi tersebut tidak terlupa. Apa sajakah janji-…
Jacques Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at a time when it faced certain intellectual decline. Focusing on key terms in Lacan's often difficult, idiosyncratic development of psychoanalysis, this volume brings new perspectives to the work of an intimidat…
translated, edited, and with an introduction by Max Pensky Does a global economy render the traditional nation-state obsolete? Does globalization threaten democratic life, or offer it new forms of expression? What are the implications of globalization for our understanding of politics and of national and cultural identities?In The Postnational Constellation, Jürgen Habermas addresses these and…
The essays collected here offer an analysis of the irrational dimensions of modern culture which is both timely and disturbing in the 1990s. Adorno's ideas are relevant to the understanding of phenomena as apparently diverse as astrology and "New Age" cults, the power of neo-fascist propaganda and the re-emergence of anti-Semitism, and the psychological basis of popular culture. The longest ess…
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world s racist populists in places as far apart as hungary and arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer an…
This second volume of Marcuse's collected papers includes unpublished manuscripts from the late 1960s and early 1970s, such as Beyond One-Dimensional Man, Cultural Revolution and The Historical Fate of Bourgeois Democracy, as well as a rich collection of letters. It shows Marcuse at his most radical, focusing on his critical theory of contemporary society, his analyses of technology, capitalism…
Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolution and Revolt, Marcuse here addresses the shortcomings of Marxist aesthetic theory and explores a dialectical aesthetic in which art functions as the conscience of society. Marcuse argues that art is the only form or expression that can take up where religion and philosophy fail and contends that aesthetics offers the last refuge for two…