Interventions in Contemporary Thought : : History, Politics, Aesthetics / / Gabriel Rockhill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Rockhill, Gabriel,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

A critical intervention in contemporary theoretical debates on history, politics and aestheticsWith the aim of rethinking the state and stakes of contemporary theory, Gabriel Rockhill critically works through some of the most important recent philosophical writings on the intertwined topics of history, politics and art. He offers guidance to some of the complex debates in these areas, as well as a commanding overview of the key issues and some of the central figures, including Foucault, Derrida, Castoriadis, Badiou and Rancière. By resituating theoretical work in a broader force field of culture and power, he advances an innovative and nuanced description of recent intellectual developments that calls into question the now standard but rather stereotypical accounts of prominent thinkers and philosophical movements. Far from hiding behind the towering figures with whom he engages, Rockhill stakes out positions in relationship to them and formulates precise arguments in favour of a novel understanding of the historical relationship between art and politics, arguing that there is a need for a deep shift in the tectonic plates that undergird these debates. The result is an invitation not only to retool extant methodological paradigms but also to ultimately reinvent the practice of theory itself.Read more by Gabriel Rockhill'What is to be done, with theory?' on the Edinburgh University Press blogRead an interview with Gabriel Rockhill: 'Pulling the Emergency Break on Critical Theory in Retreat''Revolution Never Sleeps: Nuit Debout in France and Beyond' - Gabriel Rockhill writes on CounterPunch"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- Introduction: What Is an Intervention? Metaphilosophical Critique and the Reinvention of Contemporary Theory -- Section I: History -- 1 How Do We Think the Present? From Ontology of Contemporary Reality to Ontology without Being -- 2 The Right of Philosophy and the Facts of History: Foucault, Derrida, Descartes -- 3 Aesthetic Revolution and Modern Democracy: Rancière's Historiography -- Section II: Politics -- 4 Is Difference a Value in Itself? Critique of a Metaphilosophical Axiology -- 5 Castoriadis and the Tradition of Radical Critique -- 6 The Hatred of Rancière: Democracy in the History of Political Cultures -- Section III: Aesthetics -- 7 The Art of Talking Past One Another: The Badiou-Rancière Debate -- 8 The Hermeneutics of Art and Political History in Rancière -- 9 The Forgotten Political Art Par Excellence? Architecture, Design and the Social Sculpting of the Body Politic -- Bibliography -- Index