Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy [electronic resource] /
Boer, Karin de.editor.
Sonderegger, Ruth.editor.
Does philosophical critique have a future? What are its possibilities, limits and presuppositions? This collection by outstanding scholars from various traditions, responds to these questions by examining the forms of philosophical critique that have shaped continental thought from Spinoza and Kant to Marx, Foucault, Derrida and Rancière.
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Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Critique, Dissent, Disciplinarity; 2 Spinoza or the Other Critique; 3 Rousseau, Kant and Philosophical Auto-Criticism: The Practical Ends of Critical Thinking; 4 Beyond the Limits of Reason: Kant, Critique and Enlightenment; 5 Hegel's Conception of Immanent Critique: Its Sources, Extent and Limit; 6 Karl Marx: Critique as Emancipatory Practice; 7 Nietzsche's Genealogy as Performative Critique; 8 Psychoanalytic Critique and Beyond; 9 The Interruption of Myth: Walter Benjamin's Concept of Critique
10 Adorno's Critique of Late Capitalism: Negative, Explanatory and Practical11 Habermas's Social Theory: The Critical Power of Communicative Rationality; 12 Prophecy and Parresia: Foucauldian Critique and the Political Role of Intellectuals; 13 Derrida: Echoes of the Forthcoming; 14 Negative versus Affirmative Critique: On Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Does philosophical critique have a future? What are its possibilities, limits and presuppositions? This collection by outstanding scholars from various traditions, responds to these questions by examining the forms of philosophical critique that have shaped continental thought from Spinoza and Kant to Marx, Foucault, Derrida and Rancière.
Philosophy, modern.
Movement (Philosophy).
Political science
Popular Science in Philosophy.
Modern Philosophy.
Philosophical Traditions.
Political Philosophy.