Contemporary Condition - Hegel After Occupy

Hegel after Occupy is a Western Marxist analysis of different attempts to understand the present historical situation and the way theories of post-modernity, globalisation and contemporaneity implicitly or explicitly conceptualise the relationship between the historical present and political action. They all persuasively describe a breakdown of former historical categories but paradoxically end up understanding the breakdown as the end of politics tout court. Analysis and "position" thus merge, and the analytic diagnosis of a disavowal of the future (and the past) ends up as disavowal of politics.