Faculty & Staff

John Sanbonmatsu

Assistant Professor

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Office: Salisbury Laboratories, 133
Phone: +1-508-831-5226
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
js@wpi.edu

Educational Background

B.A., Hampshire College, 1984
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz, 2000

Research & Teaching Interests

Political philosophy; critical theory (Marxism, feminism, ecological theory); ethics and animal rights; existentialism (especially phenomenology).

IQP Advising Interests

Environmental social movements, energy politics, energy policy, impact of new technologies, ethical issues, sexism in medical care, Critiques of science and technology, social cost & social change, science & society studies, computers & education

Recent Publications

"The Subject of Freedom at the End of History: Socialism Beyond Humanism," American Journal of Economics and Sociology (Basil Blackwell, forthcoming 2006).
"Zieht in den USA ein postfordistischer Faschismus herauf? [English title: "American or Post-Fordist Fascism: Structural and Psychological Considerations"], Das Argument 265, March 2006.
"Postmodernism and the Corruption of the Academic Intelligentsia," Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006 (London: Merlin Press, 2005).
"The Jargon of Culture and the Banality of Political Theory," review essay of Seyla Benhabib, The Claims of Culture and Laurence Cahoone, The Conservative Meaning of Liberal Politics, in Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 30, No. 2, April 2004.
The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004).

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