ABSTRACT
One of George Snedeker's most notable interventions concerns the necessity of literary criticism for any sociology worth the name. Especially in terms of his commitment to literary criticism, one has the feeling that it's hard to root against Snedeker in a project such as Politics. Considering the various yet ubiquitous ways that literary criticism still today is often met with suspicion, if not outright derision, it is a welcome gesture from Snedeker. Be that as it may, Snedeker's book should hardly be deemed a failure on these grounds. Indeed, his heart really seems to be in his second line of intention, which at once refutes the paradigm of Perry Anderson's 1976 Considerations on Western Marxism, and in the process argues for a reorganization of the definition of "critical theory" to extend and exceed the Frankfurt school.
