Critique today / edited by Robert Sinnerbrink [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sinnerbrink, Robert, editor.

Series:

Social and critical theory ; 3.

Social and critical theory ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Critical theory.

Poststructuralism.

Social history--Philosophy.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 303 p. )

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What are the tasks and potentials of critical theory today? How should we critique the present? Critique Today brings together a variety of perspectives in critical social philosophy that question our social and historical constellation. It includes contributions by Genevieve Lloyd, Shane O'Neill, Paul Patton, Paul Redding, Emmanuel Renault, and Nicholas Smith, and examines critical intersections in the work of Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, and Giorgio Agamben. Critique Today aims to further the ongoing dialogue between German critical theory and French post-structuralism, explores the relationship between philosophy and social theory, and develops new approaches to Hegel and theories of recognition, the theme of social hope, and contemporary discussions of rights and power.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Critique, Hope, Power: Challenges of Contemporary Critical Theory

Chapter 2 Providence Lost: 'September 11' and the History of Evil

Chapter 3 Hope and Critical Theory

Chapter 4 Hope, Critique, and Utopia

Chapter 5 Hegel, Habermas, and the Spirit of Critical Theory

Chapter 6 Habermas: A Reasonable Utopian?

Chapter 7 Critical Theory, Democratic Justice and Globalisation

Chapter 8 Radical Democracy and an Abolitionist Concept of Justice. A Critique of Habermas' Theory of Justice

Chapter 9 The Loss of Nature in Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy. Rereading Mead with Merleau-Ponty

Chapter 10 Pierre Bourdieu: From Neo-Kantian to Hegelian Critical Social Theory

Chapter 11 Reason and the Restlessness of the Speculative: Jean-Luc Nancy's Reading of Hegel

Chapter 12 Polytheism, Monotheism and Public Space: Between Levinas and Arendt

Chapter 13 From Machenschaft to Biopolitics: A Genealogical Critique of Biopower

Chapter 14 Foucault, Critique and Rights

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-474-0876-4

1-4356-1472-0

OCLC:

184898331

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047408765 DOI