Interventions in contemporary thought : history, politics, aesthetics / Gabriel Rockhill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rockhill, Gabriel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Aesthetics.

Aesthetics--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

ix, 285 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

With the aim of rethinking the state and stakes of contemporary theory, Gabriel Rockhill critically works through some of the most important recent philosophical writings on the intertwined topics of history, politics and art. He offers guidance to some of the complex debates in these areas, as well as a commanding overview of the key issues and some of the central figures, including Foucault, Derrida, Castoriadis, Badiou and Rancière. By resituating theoretical work in a broader force field of culture and power, he advances an innovative and nuanced description of recent intellectual developments that calls into question the now standard but rather stereotypical accounts of prominent thinkers and philosophical movements. Far from hiding behind the towering figures with whom he engages, Rockhill stakes out positions in relationship to them and formulates precise arguments in favour of a novel understanding of the historical relationship between art and politics, arguing that there is a need for a deep shift in the tectonic plates that undergird these debates. The result is an invitation not only to retool extant methodological paradigms but also ultimately to reinvent the practice of theory itself. Book jacket.

Contents:

I History

1 How Do We Think the Present? From Ontology of Contemporary Reality to Ontology without Being 37

2 The Right of Philosophy and the Facts of History: Foucault, Derrida, Descartes 55

3 Aesthetic Revolution and Modern Democracy: Rancière's Historiography 100

II Politics

4 Is Difference a Value in Itself? Critique of a Metaphilosophical Axiology 117

5 Castoriadis and the Tradition of Radical Critique 139

6 The Hatred of Rancière: Democracy in the History of Political Cultures 165

III Aesthetics

7 The Art of Talking Past One Another: The Badiou-Rancière Debate 193

8 The Hermeneutics of Art and Political History in Rancière 214

9 The Forgotten Political Art Par Excellence? Architecture, Design and the Social Sculpting of the Body Politic 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-278) and index.

ISBN:

9781474405355

1474405355

OCLC:

935194595