Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Constitutive Exclusion
Part One: Diagnosis
Chapter Two: Multiple Negativity
Chapter Three: On the Quasi-Transcendental: Economy, Temporality, and Political Epistemology
Part Two: Critique
Chapter Four: Negative Dialectics as Critical Method
Chapter Five: Materialist History
Part Three: Contestation
Chapter Six: Critical Models
Chapter Seven: Multiplicity and Collective Contestation in the 1992 Los Angeles Riots/Rebellion
Postscript: The Excluded Within Us: WOC Feminist Plural Ontologies and the Resources for Resistance
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Sina Kramer is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

Reviews

"Kramer's text shows a masterful handling of theoretical schools that is versatile enough to teach critical theory and introduce readers to that body of work." -- Mario Venegas, The University of Texas at Austin, Social Forces
"Sina Kramer's Excluded Within is one of those rare books that states things that seems obvious in the telling but which no one had quite thought of before. [â] By bringing multiple forms of resistance, thought and action into conversation, Kramer has offered us much more than a snapshot of how resistance can work. Indeed the problem with snapshots, Kramer shows us, is that they distort the bases of political resistance. Instead, Kramer shows us
how to animate politics by contending less with what appears in all of its intractable "thereness" and more with what could be. It is no less realistic for being "impossible." -- James Martel, Theory and Event
"At a time when so many find themselves denigrated and silenced, Sina Kramer's Excluded Within asks us to consider how the politics of exclusion both shapes and limits our notions of political membership. Moving from Greek tragedy to Black Lives Matter, Excluded Within enacts the practices of listening and plurality for which Kramer so fervently calls."
--Cristina Beltrán, Associate Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University
"How can we understand 'constitutive exclusion,' that act of differentiation that gives coherence to things while keeping them unavowably dependent on their outsides? Can it be grasped 'as such,' or does it demand attention to the particulars of history and politics? In this fierce, luminous book, Sina Kramer demonstrates that the answer must be 'both'-and then, in a stunning display of mastery that reaches from Hegel's Science of Logic to the streets
of Los Angeles, she shows us how it's done."
--Patchen Markell, Associate Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago
"This book dives deep into the Hegelian dialectic whose constitutive exclusions structure our thought and political life. With clarity, rigor, and a profound sense of urgency, Kramer challenges the exclusionary production of figures of political unintelligibility: Antigone, Rosa Parks, the 1992 LA Uprisings, Black Lives Matter. At once feminist, queer, and anti-racist, Excluded Within brilliantly exposes the philosophical stakes of our most burning
contemporary issues. A must read!"
--Lynne Huffer, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University
"Excluded Within is a careful reconstruction of the idea of 'constitutive exclusion' in dialectical philosophy and a powerful meditation on its political purchase. Kramer offers original and incisive readings of Hegel, Adorno, and Derrida and draws from each of them to advance feminist and antiracist methods. Her approach is timely and her insights are significant."
--Robyn Marasco, Associate Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY
APSA Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award