Michael Paul Rogin

Alyson Cole is a professor of political science, women¿s and gender studies, and American studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror, and articles in journals such as Signs, Critical Horizons, and WSQ. Cole is co-editor of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism, and a principal scholar in the "Vulnerable & Dynamic Forms of Life" International Network of Research, an interdisciplinary research collective supported by funding from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.

Michael Paul Rogin¿s scholarship profoundly altered the scope, content, and disposition of political theory. This book focuses on three categories of substantive innovation within his work: demonology and countersubversion; the psychic life of liberal society; and political mediation: institutions and culture.

Introduction: The Political Thought of Michael Rogin PART I - Demonology and Countersubversion Chapter 1 Preface [to Ronald Reagan, The Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology] (1987) Chapter 2 Political Repression in the United States (1987) Chapter 3 American Political Demonology: A Retrospective (1987) PART II - The Psychic Life of Liberal Society Chapter 4 Liberal Society and the Indian Question (1971) Chapter 5 The Sword Became a Flashing Vision: D.W. Griffith¿s The Birth of a Nation (1985) Chapter 6 Two Declarations of American Independence (1996) Chapter 7 Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood, and Cold War Movies (1984) Part III - Political Mediation: Institutions and Culture Chapter 8 The King¿s Two Bodies: Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, and Presidential Self-Sacrifice (1987) Chapter 9 Herman Melville: State, Civil Society and the American 1848 (1979) Chapter 10 "Make My Day!": Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics (1990) Chapter 11 Protest Politics and the Pluralist Vision (1967) Chapter 12 In Defense of the New Left (1983) Conclusion: Theorizing with Rogin Now