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Bill Martin is Professor of Philosophy, at DePaul University in Chicago. There, he has been an active supporter of Norman Finkelstein in his widely publicized tenure fight. Martin's work encompasses a wide range of topics from ethics, imperialism, and animal rights, to actually existing revolutionary movements, to philosophies of science and secularism. He engages seriously with figures from Sartre, Lenin, Marx, and Mao, to Plato, Aristotle, Derrida, Kant, Marcuse, Habermas, and Jameson in books including: Matrix and Line: Derrida and the possibilities of postmodern social theory (1992), Politics and the Impasse: Explorations in postsecular social theory (1996), and Humanism and Its Aftermath: the Fate of Politics and Deconstruction (1995), and The Radical Project: Sartrean Investigations (1999). He has also published several books and articles dealing with creative and avant-garde music, from classical, to jazz, to contemporary rock. His forthcoming book, Ethical Marxism, argues for the necessity of an ethical supplement to Marxism, while tracing out what he sees as the persistent if fraught ethical presence at work in actually existing historical revolutionary projects. His own sustained radical project insists that in a contemporary capitalist world - that has been rendered internationally lop-sided by imperialism and cynical by postmodernist "hyper-capitalism" - the need for a Marxism rooted in ethics, and in a commitment to post-secular socialism, is greater than ever. He is editor of the series Creative Marxism, in which Ethical Marxism is the second volume, the first being Marxism and the Call of the Future, a volume of extended dialogues between Bill Martin and Bob Avakian.

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