Conceptions of critique in modern and contemporary philosophy / edited by Karin de Boer and Ruth Sonderegger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boer, Karin de.

Sonderegger, Ruth, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Critical thinking.

Reasoning.

Physical Description:

x, 270 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Does philosophical critique have a future? What are its possibilities, limits and presuppositions? Bringing together outstanding scholars from various traditions, this collection of essays is the first to examine the forms of critique that have shaped modern and contemporary continental thought. Through critical analyses of key texts by, among others, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Adorno, Habermas, Foucault and Rancière, it traces the way in which critique has time and again geared itself towards new cultural, social and political problems, shedding those of its assumptions no longer deemed tenable. It is our hope that the many voices of critique that rise up from the present volume will produce effects - new doubts, new insights, new challenges or new resources that none could have achieved on their own. Book jacket.

Contents:

Critique, dissent, disciplinarity / Judith Butler

Spinoza or the other critique / André Tosel

Rousseau, Kant, and philosophical auto-criticism : the practical ends of critical thinking / Philip Quadrio

Beyond the limits of reason : Kant, critique, and enlightenment / Colin McQuillan

Hegel's conception of immanent critique : its sources, extent, and limit / Karin de Boer

Karl Marx : critique as emancipatory practice / Robin Celikates

Nietzsche's genealogy as performative critique / James I. Porter

Psychoanalytic critique and beyond / Elizabeth Rottenberg

The interruption of myth : Walter Benjamin's concept of critique / Thijs Lijster

Adorno's critique of late capitalism : negative, explanatory, and practical / Fabian Freyenhagen

Habermas' social theory : the critical power of communicative rationality / Maeve Cooke

Prophecy and parrēsia : Foucauldian critique and the political role of intellectuals / Christina Hendricks

Derrida : echoes of the forthcoming / Olivia Custer

Negative versus affirmative critique : on Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière / Ruth Sonderegger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230245228

0230245226

OCLC:

767864887

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