Communicative Action: The Logos Interviews

Amy L. Buzby

doi:10.5771/9780739139769

Summary

This volume of interviews from the popular online journal Logo, are organized around the critical and interconnected themes of the decline of politics and culture, neo-liberalism and the rise of American imperialism, the crisis in the Middle East and the need to forge alternative visions and effective modes of resistance in contemporary struggle. These interviews offer key insights and galvanizing challenges to critically thinking scholars and citizens engaged in analyzing and struggling against current injustices. Although the interviews were conducted during the presidency of George W. Bush, they are especially relevant now. These critical insights and demands should not be abandoned because of the ease and relief engendered by the election of Barack Obama. Because of the volume's concern with defending democracy against the incursions of empire, the text emphasizes the need to reinvigorate discourse and rebuild the public sphere. The primary method of accomplishing these ends, frank and honest dialogue, is built into the very structure of the text. The insights and challenges offered in the interviews are crucial for active thinkers looking to respond thoughtfully, effectively and conscientiously to the crises that shape our times.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2010
Copyright Year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-3975-2
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-3976-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 216
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
1. An Interview with Benjamin Barber No access
2. An Interview with Studs Terkel No access
3. An Interview with Frances Fox Piven No access
1. An Interview with Cornel West: Empire, Pragmatism, and War No access
2. An Interview with Daniel Ellsberg No access
3. An Interview with Jürgen Habermas: America and the World No access
4. An Interview with David Harvey No access
5. An Interview with Benny Morris: Survival of the Fittest? No access
1. An Interview with Rashid Khalidi: The Middle East No access
2. An Interview with Ilan Pappe: Power and History in the Middle East No access
3. An Interview with Tariq Ali: A Clash of Civilizations or Fundamentalisms? No access
4. An Interview between American and Iraqi Intellectuals: Baghdad, Iraq—January 16, 2003 No access
1. An Interview with Saad Eddin Ibrahim: The Prospect for Democracy in the Middle East No access
2. An Interview with Bianca Jagger No access
3. An Interview with Peter Singer: Practicing Ethics in the New Millennium No access
Sources No access Pages 199 - 200
Index No access Pages 201 - 210
About the Editor No access Pages 211 - 212
About the Interviewees No access Pages 213 - 216