Bill Martin (born 1956) is a professor of philosophy at

DePaul University DePaul University is a private, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1998, it became the largest Ca ...

whose academic work concerns

Derrida Derrida is a surname shared by notable people listed below. * Bernard Derrida (born 1952), French theoretical physicist * Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), French philosopher ** ''Derrida'' (film), a 2002 American documentary film * Marguerite Derri ...

Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and lite ...

Marxist Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialecti ...

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 t ...

, 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 ...

. 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. I ...

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 Talent ...

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"

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External links

DePaul bio of Bill Martin
retrieved 15th Feb 2010.

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