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Joseph M. Schwartz (born August 12, 1954) is a political and social theorist and political activist. He is a Professor of Political Science at Temple University, where he served as department chair from 2000-2005. Schwartz writes and teaches in the areas of radical and socialist political thought, as well as contemporary American politics. His writings focus on the ways in which conflicts around race, class, and gender influence social and economic policy. Schwartz’s first book, The Permanence of the Political: A Democratic Critique of the Radical Impulse to Transcend Politics (Princeton, 1995) critiques the radical longing for a society that transcends particular identities.[1] While affirming much of Marx’s critique of capitalism, Schwartz contends that Marx’s vision of a conflict-free post-revolutionary society had negative effects on future radical theory and practice. The book won the North American Society for Social Philosophy Prize for the best book published in 1995 and has influenced how radical theorists and activists think about the role of pluralism and political freedoms in a democratic egalitarian society.[2] The book received positive views from major scholars such as Benjamin Barber and Steven Lukes.[3] [4] His second book, The Future of Democratic Equality: Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America (Routledge 2009), argues that the left must not forget that “difference,” if constructed upon a terrain of radical social inequality, yields unjust inequalities in social and political power. [5] Thus, the challenge facing progressive theorist and activists remains rebuilding a sense of solidarity founded and shared humanity among the diverse, disempowered groups in modern society. [6] [7] The book won the American Political Science Association’s 2011 David Easton Award for the best book published in political and social theory in the past five years.[8] Schwartz has also published numerous scholarly articles on topics ranging from just war theory and the war on terrorism to the challenges neo-liberal globalization poses for egalitarian politics and policy. Schwartz’s work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation. Active on the left since his involvement in the anti-Vietnam war movement in high school, Schwartz played an active role in the United States anti-apartheid movement while a graduate student at Harvard in the early 1980s. Since then he has been active in the movement for a single-payer national health care system and, currently in fights against cuts in social services at the state and national level. He is a member of the executive committee of the faculty and staff union at Temple University (American Federation of Teachers). He also currently serves as a Vice-Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and is a member of its National Political Committee.[9] He is a frequent contributor to such popular left publications as In These Times, Dissent, Tikkun, and Democratic Left. [10] [11] [12]

References [edit] ^ Schwartz, Joseph M. (1995). The Permanence of the Political: A Democratic Critique of the Radical Impulse to Transcend Politics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691033570. ^ Schwartz, Joseph M. (1996). "Schwartz Wins North American society for Social Philosophy Book Award". Journal of Social Philosophy 27 (2): 31. ^ "Book Awards". Retrieved 16 July 2013. ^ Schwartz, Joseph M. (2009). The Future of Democratic Equality: Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America. New York, N.Y: Routledge. ISBN 9780415944656. ^ O'Brien, Erin (2009). "Review of The Future of Democratic Equality". Perspectives on Politics 7 (4): 972–974. doi:10.1017/S1537592709991472. ^ Hirsch, Michael (2009). "Returning Theory to Politics". New Politics Xii (3). ^ "Awards". Retrieved 16 July 2013. ^ www.dsausa.org [Mark this page as patrolled]