Bill Martin (philosopher)

Bill Martin (born 1956) is a professor of philosophy at DePaul University whose academic work concerns Badiou, Derrida, Sartre, Marxist theory, Aesthetics, and critiques of Richard Rorty. Martin has also written on progressive rock bands including Yes.^[1]

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.^[2]
• "Matrix and Line: Derrida and the Possibilities of Postmodern Social Theory"
• "Music of Yes: Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock"^[3]
• "Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968–1978"^[4]
• "Politics in the Impasse: Explorations in Postsecular Social Theory"
• "The radical project: Sartrean investigations"^[5]
• "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

• Biography portal
• Philosophy portal

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

References

1. DeRogatis, Jim (November 11, 1997), "Progressive poetry // Scholar explores '70s rock", Chicago Sun-Times, archived from the original on March 23, 2015.
2. "Marxism and the call of the future; conversations on ethics, history, and politics (book review)", Reference & Research Book News, November 1, 2005, archived from the original on March 23, 2015.
3. Evans, Simon (October 31, 1998), "Telling Tales from Typographic Oceans; Music of Yes: Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock by Bill Martin (book review)", Birmingham Post.
4. Covach, John (September 1998), "Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978 (book review)", Notes, Second Series, 55 (1): 77–80, doi:10.2307/900350, JSTOR 900350, archived from the original on 2015-03-23.
5. Butterfield, Elizabeth (2002), "Book Reviews: The Radical Project: Sartrean Investigations by Bill Martin", Sartre Studies International, 8 (2): 141–146, JSTOR 23511212.

External links

• DePaul bio of Bill Martin. retrieved 15th Feb 2010.
• Review of "Humanism and its Aftermath" by John Hutnyk