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"What makes individuals what they are? How should they judge their social and political interaction with the world? What makes them authentic or inauthentic? This original and provocative study explores the concept of "authenticity" and its relevance for radical politics. Weaving together close readings of three 20th century thinkers: Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Jean-Paul Sartre with the concept of authenticity, Stephen Eric Bronner illuminates the phenomenological foundations for self-awareness that underpin our sense of identity and solidarity. He claims that different expressions of the existential tradition compete with one another in determining how authenticity might be experienced, but all of them ultimately rest on self-referential judgments. The author's own new framework for a political ethic at once serves as a corrective and an alternative. Wonderfully rich, insightful, and nuanced, Stephen Eric Bronner has produced another bookshelf staple that speaks to crucial issues in politics, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Existentialism, Authenticity, Solidarity will appeal to scholars, students and readers from the general public alike"--

Preface : the sovereign in our time -- Introduction : terms and conditions -- Roots -- Imperial designs -- Principles and interests -- The sovereign's will -- Gangster sovereigns -- Genocidal sovereigns -- Sovereign judgments -- Competing sovereigns : a history lesson -- Popular sovereignty -- The republican sovereign -- Socialist sovereigns -- The last sovereign -- Cyberspace -- Cosmopolitan sovereignty -- Appendix.

Socialism Unbound first appeared in 1990. The Berlin Wall had just fallen and the Soviet Union was in a crisis that soon would turn into its death throes. Mikhail Gorbachev was still in power and, incredibly, it seemed as if his sclerotic communist state might yet make way for a new form of socialism with democratic political foundations. Movements committed to liberal constitutionalism, whose dynamics still remain theoretically undeveloped, were taking to the streets almost everywhere in Eastern Europe. Hopes on the left were high. In the popular imagination, however, the final collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 seemed to vindicate the policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Laissez-faire became the rallyingcry for most former dissidents and the new party professionals in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, in the West, attempts to temper market excesses were condemned as anachronistic. Left politics suddenly stood discredited. Indeed, soon enough, the attack on "socialism" would turn into an attack on welfare liberalism and the values associated with the 1960s.

Intro -- Praise for A Rumor about the Jews -- Dedication -- Preface for the Second Edition -- Preface for the First Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Antisemitism for Popular Consumption: Selections from the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion -- Introduction by Victor Marsden (1922) -- Protocol 1 -- Protocol 2 -- Protocol 3 -- Protocol 4 -- Protocol 5 -- Protocol 6 -- Protocol 7 -- Protocol 8 -- Protocol 9 -- Protocol 10 -- Protocol 11 -- Protocol 12 -- Protocol 13 -- Protocol 14 -- Protocol 15 -- Protocol 16 -- Protocol 17 -- Protocol 18 -- Protocol 19 -- Protocol 20 -- Protocol 21 -- Protocol 22 -- Protocol 23 -- Protocol 24 -- Chapter 3: The Text in Context: The Protocols and the Varieties of Antisemitism -- Religious Intolerance -- Social Prejudice -- Political Antisemitism -- Chapter 4: The Tale of a Forgery: Inventing the Protocols -- The Protocols Finds a Home -- Origins -- Sources -- Court Intrigues -- The Protocols Goes to War -- Chapter 5: Spreading the News: The Protocols Triumphant -- Against East and West -- The Protocols on the March -- The Protocols on Trial -- Twilight of the Gods -- Chapter 6: Intermezzo: American Populism and the Jews -- Pride and Prejudice -- Resentment and Reaction -- Conspiracy and Critique -- Chapter 7: The Legacy of a Lie: Contemporary Antisemitism and Its Future -- The Protocols in Our Time -- The Losers -- The Vanishing Jew -- Appendix -- Rumors and Reflections: A Reply to Ian Markham -- Index.

In this volume, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of famous and less famous representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukacs and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical investigations.

"Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America's leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will surely prove a seminal study, Bronner explores its appeal, the self-image it justifies, the interests it serves, and its complex connection with modernity. He reveals how prejudice shapes the conspiratorial and paranoid worldview of the true believer, the elitist, and the chauvinist. In the process, it becomes apparent how the bigot hides behind mainstream conservative labels in order to support policies designed to disadvantage the targets of his contempt. Examining bigotry in its various dimensions-anthropological, historical, psychological, sociological, and political-Professor Bronner illustrates how the bigot's intense hatred of "the other" is a direct reaction to social progress, liberal values, secularism, and an increasingly complex and diverse world. A sobering look at the bigot in the twenty-first century, this volume is essential for making sense of the dangers facing democracy now and in the future"--

Jean-Paul Sartre originally made the term engagement a part of the existentialist vocabulary following WWII. It imples the responsibility of intervening in social or political conflicts in the hope of fostering freedom. Imagining the Possible opens different windows upon this particular engagement

Of Critical Theory and its Theorists is an intelligent, accessible overview of the entire Critical Theory Tradition, written by one of the leading experts on the subject. Filled with original insights and valuable historical narratives, Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists covers the work of major philosophical thinkers such as Benjamin, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Habermas and revisits the contributions of lesser-known figures such as Karl Korsch and Ernst Bloch. Bronner measures the writing of these theorists against each other, postmodernist philosophers and t.

The modernist impulse: subjectivity, resistance, freedom -- Modernism in context: notes for a political aesthetic -- Experiencing modernism: a short history of expressionist painting -- The modernist spirit: on the correspondence between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky -- Modernism in motion: F.T. Marinetti and Italian futurism -- Ecstatic modernism: the paintings of Emil Nolde -- Modernism, surrealism, and the political imaginary -- Modernism changes the world: the Russian avant-garde and the revolution -- Modernists in power: the literati and the Bavarian revolution -- Exhibiting modernism: Paris and Berlin, 1900-1933 -- The modernist adventure: political reflections on a cultural legacy

Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialismremains one of the best texts to reframe the movement for modern audiences. Treatingsocialism as an ethic and reclaiming its early intellectual foundations, while acknowledging and correcting its inherent flaws, Bronner advances a more robust theory of working-class politics for the twenty-first century. Unfolding chronologically, Bronner's study revisits the labor movement's pivotalfigures-Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Kautsky, Eduard Bernstein, Vladimir Lenin, and Rosa Luxem

Blood in the Sand is Stephen Eric Bronner's powerful critique of the current state of American foreign and domestic policy, ranging from the government's initial response to 9/11 and the assault on Afghanistan through the Iraqi War and the ramifications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bronner, who just months before the war began spent time in Iraq as part of a peace delegation, examines the state of twenty-first century America, a nation in which security against future terrorist attacks has become an obsession, "moral values" have turned into a slogan, and belief in the right to engage