A time for critique / Didier Fassin, Bernard E. Harcourt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fassin, Didier, Editor.

Harcourt, Bernard E., 1963- Editor.

Series:

New directions in critical theory.

New Directions in Critical Theory ; 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical thinking.

Philosophy--Political aspects.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

In a world of political upheaval, rising inequality, catastrophic climate change, and widespread doubt of even the most authoritative sources of information, is there a place for critique? This book calls for a systematic reappraisal of critical thinking-its assumptions, its practices, its genealogy, its predicament-following the principle that critique can only start with self-critique.In A Time for Critique, Didier Fassin, Bernard E. Harcourt, and a group of eminent political theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, and literary and legal scholars reflect on the multiplying contexts and forms of critical discourses and on the social actors and social movements engaged in them. How can one maintain sufficient distance from the eventful present without doing it an injustice? How can one address contemporary issues without repudiating the intellectual legacies of the past? How can one avoid the disconnection between theory and action? How can critique be both public and collective? These provocative questions are addressed by revisiting the works of Foucault and Arendt, Said and Césaire, Benjamin and Du Bois, but they are also given substance through on-the-ground case studies that treat subaltern criticism in Palestine, emancipatory mobilizations in Syria, the antitorture campaigns of Sri Lankan activists, and the abolitionism of the African American critical resistance and undercommons movements in the United States. Examining lucidly the present challenges of critique, A Time for Critique shows how its theoretical reassessment and its emerging forms can illuminate the imaginative modalities to rejuvenate critical praxis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. How Is Critique?

2. Critique As A Political Practice Of Freedom

3. Critique Without A Politics Of Hope?

4. The Usefulness Of Uncertain Critique

5. Human Rights Consciousness And Critique

6. Critique As Subduction

7. What's Left Of The Real?

8. Subaltern Critique And The History Of Palestine

9. Critical Theory In A Minor Key To Take Stock Of The Syrian Revolution

10. Pragmatic Critique Of Torture In Sri Lanka

11. Dispossession, Reimagined From The 1690s

12. Crisis, Critique, And Abolition

13. Law, Critique, And The Undercommons

14. Critical Praxis For The Twenty- First Century

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780231549318

0231549318

OCLC:

1110010142