Bill Martin (born 1956) is a professor of philosophy at
DePaul University
DePaul University is a private university, private Catholic higher education, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from ...
whose academic work concerns
Badiou,
Derrida,
Sartre,
Marxist
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflic ...
theory,
Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste (sociology), taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Ph ...
, and critiques of
Richard Rorty. Martin has also written on
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early-to-mid-1970s. Initially termed " progressive pop", the ...
bands including
Yes.
Works
*"Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Björk"
*"Humanism and Its Aftermath: The Shared Fate of Deconstruction and Politics"
*"Marxism and the Call of the Future: Conversations on Ethics, History, and Politics" co-written with Bob Avakian.
*"Matrix and Line: Derrida and the Possibilities of Postmodern Social Theory"
*"Music of Yes: Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock"
*"Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968–1978"
*"Politics in the Impasse: Explorations in Postsecular Social Theory"
*"The radical project: Sartrean investigations"
[.]
*"Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation (Creative Marxism)"
*"Into the Wild: Badiou, actually-existing Maoism, and the “vital mix” of yesterday and tomorrow"
See also
*
American philosophy
*
List of American philosophers
American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can neverthe ...
References
External links
DePaul bio of Bill Martin retrieved 15th Feb 2010.
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1956 births
Living people
American Maoists
American writers about music
21st-century American philosophers
20th-century American philosophers
DePaul University faculty
Marxist theorists