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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Politics of Loose Connections -- 2. The Place of the Communal in the Geography of Time -- 3. Political Passion and the Troubled Mexican State -- 4. The Crafting of an Aesthetic of Tradition -- 5. Communal Passions and the Politics of Loose Connections -- 6. Democracy's Disciplines -- 7. Transnational Politics and the Imaginary of Sustainable Development -- 8. Theorizing Politics from the Margins -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

More Than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces. Ann E. Kingsolver. ed. New York: State University of New York Press, 1998. 222 pp.

Discusses the nature of the political in postmodern theory through an examination of Ernesto Laclau & Chantal Mouffe's Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (1989) & Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). Laclau & Mouffe deconstruct Marxist theory through an analysis of the role of class in Marxist historical materialism & the reality of class in the political world. Butler deconstructs the emergence of the compulsory heterosexuality. It is posited that in understanding politics from the perspectives of the social world, postmodernism clarifies the nonessential nature of social conflict. It is concluded that the postmodern challenge for radical politics is to radically reformulate the position of theory in politics. Laclau, Mouffe, & Butler are criticized for failing to concede that their theoretical formulations originate from the interpretive subject. 15 References. M. Greenberg