ABSTRACT

The first three parts of this apology have endeavored to delineate and criticize what it means to do politics through supranational capitalism rigorously understood; they have argued that our current thinking about markets is no longer sufficient. The first three parts have attempted to set forth the ideas that informed the City of Gold, and pursued those ideas to their logical, often bitter, conclusions. But life is arranged by much more than logic. In this fourth and final part, therefore, we relax the assumption that the logic of markets completely determines life in the City, and attempt to discern promising possibilities for political thought in current practice, with all its ambiguities, ironies, and outright contradictions, in the belief that political philosophy may renew itself by moving toward social criticism.