Paul Piccone
Biographic Data
| ID | 265671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Piccone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Piccone |
| SIGNATURE | PICCONE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Norbert Elias im Interview: Das Janusgesicht der Staaten (1982)
Norbert Elias im Interview mit Peter Ludes, Frank Adler und PaulPiccone
Ostracizing Carl Schmitt: Letters to The New York Review of Books
For a number of reasons having to do with the timing of its founding, its geographic location, its frequency, its interdisciplinary character, and most of all the parochialism of American academic life, The New York Review of Books has become the most prestigious American intellectual magazine. As such, it has also become the voice of what there is of an academic establishment and thus the victim of an uncritical conservative conformism unaware o…
Introduction: Racism, Multiculturalism and Globalization
Over half a century after the unprecedented atrocities of the Holocaust, there is still no clear understanding of the causes of racism, its logic or what to do about it. Major outbursts of public consternation about the periodic rediscovery by, e.g., Lanzmann's Shoah or Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, that many if not most Poles and Germans may have actually been racists, betrays the perseverance of the wishful thinking that it was onl…
Secession or Reform? The Case of Canada
Today it is generally acknowledged that 1989 not only closed the 20th century prematurely, but also marked a major turning point in modern history. While there is hardly disagreement concerning the nature of the bipolar world left behind, accounts of the geopolitical configuration of what has replaced it have all failed, in various ways, to capture the dynamics of new post-Cold War political realities. Both apologists for the liberal-democratic s…
The Tribulations of Left Social Criticism: Reply to Palti
It is no news that the official Left, entrenched primarily in academia, has grown complacent and conservative as it has achieved a modicum of political power. This turn of events requires no elaborate explanation in terms of, e.g., inevitable necessities such as the capitulation to the various disciplines’ obsession with “scientificity” or scholarly rigor — as unreconstructed social-democrats would have it. Along with all garden-varieties of comp…
The Antinomies of Miglio's Neo-Federalism
Gianfranco Miglio, Io, Bossi e la Lega. Diario Segreto dei Miei Quattro Anni sul Carroccio (Milan: Mondadori, 1994), 98 pp
Confronting the French New Right: Old Prejudices or a New Political Paradigm
To the extent that, as Hegel remarked, philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, major historical events cannot be fully understood until well after they occur — after reflection has generated new, more adequate categories of analysis. Thus it is not surprising that the collapse of the Soviet system and the fading of the Cold War were initially misread as, e.g., “the end of history” (by naive liberal apparatchiks) or as the dawn of “auth…
The Actuality of Traditions
Something fundamental has changed in politics since the 1960s. So far, however, its meaning has yet to be fully understood. As is often the case, art is ahead of theory as “the new politics” have already become the object of some provocative aesthetic representations. Thus recent films such as The Crying Game tackle these new developments in all their contradictoriness and manage to grasp the main contours of the predicament, including the inadeq…
Gramsci's Prison Notebooks -- The Remake
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, Vol. 1, ed. by Joseph A. Buttigieg, trans, by Joseph A. Buttigieg and Antonio Callari (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992), 608 pp.+xxiii
Roundtable on Communitarianism
We are here to discuss a range of social and political issues which can be subsumed under the rubric of communitarianism, and which are increasingly rising to the top of various political agendas.What is this communitarianism? While this question is undoubtedly open to a variety of possible answers, let me propose a simple working description. Communitarianism refers to those political sentiments sometimes associated with populism. It involves an…
Years of Telos
May 1988 marks the 20th anniversary of the appearance of the first issue of Telos. It is not clear, however, that this is cause for celebration. Unlike people who reach maturity at that age, journals are more like cats and dogs: twenty years of age usually designates not the flower of youth but incipient senility. Most new journals generally come into being in order to confront what are perceived as urgent cultural, political and social needs not…
Roundtable on Intellectuals and the Academy
Tim Luke, Paul Piccone, Fred Siegel and Michael Taves
Our Mitchell Franklin
The passing away of Mitchell Franklin has meant not only the loss of a teacher and a friend, but also die dosing of a chapter in intellectual history which, in die U.S., was hardly ever opened. Franklin's persona was certainly “born in the U.S.A.” (he, on die odier hand, was bom in Montreal, Canada). Yet, he belonged to diat European generation of diinkers, who, confronted widi rising 20th century irrationalism, sought to vindicate an updated ver…
Italian Marxism
Italian Marxism
Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas
The Future of Feminism or a World without Feminists
On Social Movements, Non-Liberals and Castoriadis
Througout its history — now going on its 15th year — Telos has always encouraged debates in the hope of developing a genuine “Left public sphere” where significant theoretical and political questions could be tackled independently of Marxist-Leninist claptrap or social-democratic banalities. With the journal gradually turning towards more political issues — without, however, compromising its main commitment to theory — there was always the possib…
Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism
Gouldner's theoretical method and reflexive sociology
The future of Eurocommunism
The Socio-Economic Roots of Re-Armament
At a time when defense spending is increasing almost everywhere, debates have tended to focus either on the Russian expansionist plans, the relaunching of traditional imperialism by the United States, or the possibility of nuclear confrontation in Western Europe. What has been overlooked is that the changing configuration of international socio-economic relations has made most standard interpretations — both Left as well as Right-wing inspired — …
Alvin Ward Gouldner: 1920?1980
A Documentary Study of Hendrik de Man, Socialist Critic of Marxism
Narcissism After the Fall: What's on the Bottom of the Pool
What is most interesting about Lasch's Culture of Narcissism is not so much the originality of his thesis, but the fact that it is at this time that such a thesis has begun to penetrate American consciousness. As Lasch himself points out, his account is not altogether new: it has illustrious precedents in Marx, Freud and the Frankfurt School. Earlier versions of his thesis can already be found in those brilliant pages of The Economic and Philosop…
The Crisis of One-Dimensionality
When the one-dimensionality thesis was fully enunciated in the early 1960s, it was already historically obsolete, not because of the student activism and anti-war militancy that exploded in the following years, but because it described a phase of capitalist development already in the process of being superseded. Furthermore, the critical theory that had formulated such a thesis from 1940 on, turned out to be structurally unable to anticipate and …
Roundtable on Communitarianism
We are here to discuss a range of social and political issues which can be subsumed under the rubric of communitarianism, and which are increasingly rising to the top of various political agendas.What is this communitarianism? While this question is undoubtedly open to a variety of possible answers, let me propose a simple working description. Communitarianism refers to those political sentiments sometimes associated with populism. It involves an…
The Changing Function of Critical Theory
To speak of as a systematically elaborated account of social reality entails such a distance from subject as to blur all significant differences existing among various members of Frankfurt School and thus fall victim to that identity theory Adorno spent so much time attacking. In fact, a close examination reveals that there are at best only critical theorists confronting a common problematic within a more or less shared cultural tradition. Yet, d…
Confronting the French New Right: Old Prejudices or a New Political Paradigm
To the extent that, as Hegel remarked, philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, major historical events cannot be fully understood until well after they occur — after reflection has generated new, more adequate categories of analysis. Thus it is not surprising that the collapse of the Soviet system and the fading of the Cold War were initially misread as, e.g., “the end of history” (by naive liberal apparatchiks) or as the dawn of “auth…
Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism
Gramsci's Marxism: Beyond Lenin and Togliatti
The Actuality of Traditions
Something fundamental has changed in politics since the 1960s. So far, however, its meaning has yet to be fully understood. As is often the case, art is ahead of theory as “the new politics” have already become the object of some provocative aesthetic representations. Thus recent films such as The Crying Game tackle these new developments in all their contradictoriness and manage to grasp the main contours of the predicament, including the inadeq…
Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas
The Future of Feminism or a World without Feminists
Gouldner's theoretical method and reflexive sociology
Narcissism After the Fall: What's on the Bottom of the Pool
What is most interesting about Lasch's Culture of Narcissism is not so much the originality of his thesis, but the fact that it is at this time that such a thesis has begun to penetrate American consciousness. As Lasch himself points out, his account is not altogether new: it has illustrious precedents in Marx, Freud and the Frankfurt School. Earlier versions of his thesis can already be found in those brilliant pages of The Economic and Philosop…
Symposium on Class
Stanley Aronowitz, Russell Jacoby, Paul Piccone and Trent Schroyer
From Tragedy to Farce: The Return of Critical Theory
One of the ironies of critical theory in the 1970s is that, although practically defunct in Germany, its birthplace, it is alive and well in the English-speaking world. I This is all the more striking since during their American exile the founding fathers were skeptical about the possibility of their work ever taking root in America that they rarely wrote in English, and their journal, the Zeitschrift fizr Sozialforschung, continued to appear in …
The Atrocity of Education
Herbert Marcuse's Heideggerian Marxism
Every decade exhibits its own defining characteristics. The thirties were characterized by depression, unionization, and drastic social upheavals (such as Fascism and Nazism); the forties by world war and reconstruction; and the fifties by economic stability and cultural stagnation under the impact of the cold war. This stability was attained under the mutual assumption of both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that the other system was inherently unstab…
Funzione delle Scienze e Significato dell'Uomo
Phenomenology is generally recognized as one of the most original and influential philosophical movements of the century both by phenomenologists and non-phenomenologists. In fact, what Spiegelberg characterizes as “the phenomenological movement” (and Farber deflates into “the phenomenological tendency”) has already generated a staggering literature whose size alone ranges into thousands of volumes. Notwithstanding such a combined intellectual ef…
Dialectical Logic Today
Dialectical logic has had an unfortunate history. It has either been dogmatically accepted by supporters, or summarely rejected by opponents. As Camay put it, « the whole topic of the dialectic now lies outside the mainstream of contemporary Western Philosophy ». Worldwide the picture is not much more encouraging, for even in the Soviet Union, where dialectical materialism is the official philosophy, « the treatment of it as a specifically logica…
Students' Protest, Class-Structure, and Ideology
A French variation of The Communist Manifesto begins by claiming that: «A ghost hounds the world: the ghost of the students». To a great degree it is true: one of the characterizing features' of the 60's has been the sudden growth into socio-political importance of student movements all over the world -a phenomenon limited neither geographically nor to specific issues. Any account of such a phenomenon must explain why it came about when it did, w…
Herbert Marcuse's Heideggerian Marxism
Every decade exhibits its own defining characteristics. The thirties were characterized by depression, unionization, and drastic social upheavals (such as Fascism and Nazism); the forties by world war and reconstruction; and the fifties by economic stability and cultural stagnation under the impact of the cold war. This stability was attained under the mutual assumption of both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that the other system was inherently unstab…
Antonio Banfi e il Pensiero Contemporaneo: Atti del Convegno di Studi Banfiani
Carteggio Gentile-Jaja
"Introduction to Tronti's "Workers and Capital
Originally published in 1966, Operai e Capitate comprised a series of separate essays written during the preceding five years. Notwithstanding its prohibitive style, it was an immediate success among Italian intellectuals and contributed considerably to the conceptual arsenal of the Italian extra-parliamentary Left at that time. The following “Postscript” was subsequently added to the second edition of the book (1971) and summarizes most of the c…
The Atrocity of Education
Storia della mia Ricerca
Introduction: The “Southern Question” in Italian Sociology
Although Italian social thought has been surprisingly inter nationalist in perspective and scope, it is natural that its main focus be of immediate local relevance. Of all many social problems confronting Italian society from days of national unification in latter part of nineteenth century to present, what has been called the Question ? i.e., coexistence of an industrialized North side by side with an underdeveloped South ? has been by far most …
Gramsci's Hegeliam Marxism
Korsch in Spain
Reading the Grundrisse: Beyond ?orthodox? Marxism
Symposium on Class
Stanley Aronowitz, Russell Jacoby, Paul Piccone and Trent Schroyer
Paradoxes of Reflexive Sociology
Au-delà de Lénine et de Togliatti: Le marxisme de Gramsci
Piccone Paul, Treves Eddy. Au-dela de Lenine et de Togliatti : le marxisme de Gramsci. In: L'Homme et la societe, N. 39-40, 1976. Tiers-Monde economie politique et culture. pp. 167-189
From Tragedy to Farce: The Return of Critical Theory
One of the ironies of critical theory in the 1970s is that, although practically defunct in Germany, its birthplace, it is alive and well in the English-speaking world. I This is all the more striking since during their American exile the founding fathers were skeptical about the possibility of their work ever taking root in America that they rarely wrote in English, and their journal, the Zeitschrift fizr Sozialforschung, continued to appear in …
Gramsci's Marxism: Beyond Lenin and Togliatti
The Changing Function of Critical Theory
To speak of as a systematically elaborated account of social reality entails such a distance from subject as to blur all significant differences existing among various members of Frankfurt School and thus fall victim to that identity theory Adorno spent so much time attacking. In fact, a close examination reveals that there are at best only critical theorists confronting a common problematic within a more or less shared cultural tradition. Yet, d…
Proletarian Order: Antonio Gramsci, Factory Councils and the Origins of Communism in Italy, 1911-1921
Existential Marxism in Postwar France: From Sartre to Althusser.Mark Poster
The Crisis of One-Dimensionality
When the one-dimensionality thesis was fully enunciated in the early 1960s, it was already historically obsolete, not because of the student activism and anti-war militancy that exploded in the following years, but because it described a phase of capitalist development already in the process of being superseded. Furthermore, the critical theory that had formulated such a thesis from 1940 on, turned out to be structurally unable to anticipate and …
Existentialism and Phenomenology: A Guide for Research
A Documentary Study of Hendrik de Man, Socialist Critic of Marxism
Narcissism After the Fall: What's on the Bottom of the Pool
What is most interesting about Lasch's Culture of Narcissism is not so much the originality of his thesis, but the fact that it is at this time that such a thesis has begun to penetrate American consciousness. As Lasch himself points out, his account is not altogether new: it has illustrious precedents in Marx, Freud and the Frankfurt School. Earlier versions of his thesis can already be found in those brilliant pages of The Economic and Philosop…
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