Bill Martin (philosopher)

{{Short description|American philosopher}}

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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.{{citation|title=Progressive poetry // Scholar explores '70s rock|journal=Chicago Sun-Times|first=Jim|last=DeRogatis|authorlink=Jim DeRogatis|date=November 11, 1997|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4409486.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323095502/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4409486.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 23, 2015}}.

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.{{citation|title=Marxism and the call of the future; conversations on ethics, history, and politics (book review)|journal=Reference & Research Book News|date=November 1, 2005|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-138494041.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323093751/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-138494041.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 23, 2015}}.
  • "Matrix and Line: Derrida and the Possibilities of Postmodern Social Theory"
  • "Music of Yes: Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock"{{citation|title=Telling Tales from Typographic Oceans; Music of Yes: Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock by Bill Martin (book review)|first=Simon|last=Evans|journal=Birmingham Post|date=October 31, 1998|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-60701854}}.
  • "Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968–1978"{{citation|first=John|last=Covach|title=Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978 (book review)|journal=Notes|series=Second Series|volume=55|issue=1|date=September 1998|pages=77–80|doi=10.2307/900350|jstor=900350|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-21187293.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323165942/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-21187293.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-03-23}}.
  • "Politics in the Impasse: Explorations in Postsecular Social Theory"
  • "The radical project: Sartrean investigations"{{citation|title=Book Reviews: The Radical Project: Sartrean Investigations by Bill Martin|first=Elizabeth|last=Butterfield|journal=Sartre Studies International|volume=8|issue=2|year=2002|pages=141–146|jstor=23511212}}.
  • "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

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References

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