Ends of Critique
Journal: DuEPublico (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Year: 2015

The workshop 'After Modernity into Complexity? Possibilities for Critique in an Age of Global Cooperation' and this global dialogue Ends of Critique originate in a diagnostic observation that all four editors share. It is an observation that awaits explanation in contemporary social sciences: in Germany and the Anglophone world, ‘critique’ seems to be everywhere but does not do anything. Playing around with a phrase from Bruno Latour, one might say that critique has run out of steam but is still