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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Political Writings about postmodern, meta, Hegelian with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Essays & Correspondence.
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conversations.value: the author introduced the term "postmodern" into current discussions within philosophy, politics, society and social theory. His "The postmodern condition" is seminal within the current debates over the relationship of theory and epistemology to history and political practice. For the author, the postmodern condition is one in which the "meta- narratives of legitimation" the enlightenment, Hegelian thought, Marxism have fallen into disuse and can no longer analyze myriad labyrinthine social texts that have been forged from their ruins. Meta- narratives assume the role of privileged discourses not inflected by historical contingencies, and each situate local social and political practices within a broader totalizing and legitimizing framework. the author claims that various local practices can no longer be legitimized by these meta-discourses; legitimation itself descends to the level of praxis as practitioners assume the responsibility for legitimizing their own practices.; "Political writings" is a collection of the author's writings mostly published between 1956 and 1969 in "Socialisme ou Barbarie", the influential journal of the non-Communist French left. The political Motivation Implicit In the author's Arguments In "The Postmodern Condition" become quite explicit in this collection. The articles outline the relevance of political struggles to contemporary debates about social and political theory; the limitations of Marxist models applied to concrete situations; and the development of the analytical categories that the author himself currently uses in his critical practices.; In a rigorous examination of the strategies and passions of various groups, the author demonstrates that the emancipatory models at work in specific local struggles are different from the universalist ones proposed by the Enlightenment, occurring as they do in First World and Third World Contexts In Which Specificity And Difference Are Negotiated And Determined.
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Political Writings
  National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners (NCDPP); and Harlan coal region; and Scottsboro boys
  New York City: Jewish population; and New Deal; protests in; racial injustice; and Schools for Mothers; Tammany Hall machine
  Republican Party; 1916 elections; 1928 elections; 1932 elections; 1936 elections; 1940 elections; money influence
  Roosevelt, Theodore: abilities of; and Child Rescue Campaign; dynamism; and nationalism; prowar rhetoric; "race suicide"
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conversations.value: Roosevelt, Theodore: abilities of; and Child Rescue Campaign; dynamism; and nationalism; prowar rhetoric; "race suicide"
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Republican Party; 1916 elections; 1928 elections; 1932 elections; 1936 elections; 1940 elections; money influence
  Roosevelt, Theodore: abilities of; and Child Rescue Campaign; dynamism; and nationalism; prowar rhetoric; "race suicide"
  Spanish Civil War (1936–39); Alfonso XIII deposition; bombardment of open towns; and communism; and Dreiser's pacifism; Ebro battle; effects on people; Franco dictatorship; Franco's victory; gold reserves; lack of aid to; Loyalist governments; and Soviet Union; and war relief
  Supreme Court (U.S.): and autocracy; civil rights; corporate personhood; freedom of speech; free press; as last bastion of justice; and National Industrial Recovery Act; Scottsboro boys; sedition cases
  Wilson, Woodrow: and American exceptionalism; antiwar position; and autocracy; cabinet of; conscription; defense of democracy; Monroe Doctrine; moralism