Critical practice from voltaire to foucault, eagleton and beyond : contested perspectives / by John E. O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, John E.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 61.

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Voltaire, 1694-1778--Political and social views.

Voltaire.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Political and social views.

Foucault, Michel.

Eagleton, Terry, 1943---Political and social views.

Eagleton, Terry.

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805--Political and social views.

Schiller, Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O’Brien investigates the problems and prospects of cultural criticism for the 21st century through absorbing studies of the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Friedrich Schiller, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Terry Eagleton and Hayden White. In spite of recurrent crises due to a flawed Western political-economy, why is there so much critical intellectual activity with so little effect? Framing his study with the early work by Max Horkheimer, Luc Boltanski and Teresa Ebert, O’Brien's investigation of resistance in America and Europe challenges the bourgeois philosophy of history, pointing to the urgency of critique as mode of analysis and intervention.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / John E. O’Brien

Overview / John E. O’Brien

What is Critical Practice? / John E. O’Brien

Voltaire: Setting the Role of Public Intellectual / John E. O’Brien

Schiller: Reform Consciousness to Change the World / John E. O’Brien

Foucault: The End of Evasion / John E. O’Brien

Jean Baudrillard: Critical Practice as Core Extraction / John E. O’Brien

Eagleton: Literary Critic – Literature or Criticism? / John E. O’Brien

Hayden White: Historic Truth as Story Telling / John E. O’Brien

Liberation: Project, Method, Object / John E. O’Brien

Technical Note / John E. O’Brien

Bibliography / John E. O’Brien

Index / John E. O’Brien.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-26065-X

OCLC:

866442519

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004260658 DOI