Interventions in Contemporary Thought : : History, Politics, Aesthetics / / Gabriel Rockhill.
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 histo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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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