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. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-centu ...
whose academic work concerns
Derrida,
Sartre,
Marxist
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
theory,
Aesthetics
Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...
, and critiques of
Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and in contemporary analytic phi ...
. Martin has also written on
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
bands including
Yes
Yes or YES may refer to:
* An affirmative particle in the English language; see yes and no
Education
* YES Prep Public Schools, Houston, Texas, US
* YES (Your Extraordinary Saturday), a learning program from the Minnesota Institute for Talente ...
.
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
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 nevert ...
*
List of American philosophers
This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.
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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
American philosophers
Continental philosophers
DePaul University faculty
Marxist theorists