Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events : : Proceedings of the 42nd International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium / / ed. by Anne Siegetsleitner, Andreas Oberprantacher, Marie-Luisa Frick, Ulrich Metschl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Amesbury, Richard,; Birnbacher, Dieter,; Bratu, Christine,; Chennoufi, Ridha,; Crary, Alice,; Engelen, Eva-Maria,; Frank, Ulrich,; Gardiner, Stephen M.,; Graness, Anke,; Haslanger, Sally,; Holzleithner, Elisabeth,; Lara, María Pía,; Lijster, Thijs,; Maier, Eva Maria,; Metschl, Ulrich,; Meyer, Lukas H.,; Monsó, Susana,; Ouelbani, Mélika,; Reichold, Anne,; Rölli, Marc,; Siller, Georg,; Somavilla, Ilse,; Wallgren, Thomas,; Weber, Karsten,; Weber-Guskar, Eva,
• HerausgeberIn: Frick, Marie-Luisa,; Metschl, Ulrich,; Oberprantacher, Andreas,; Siegetsleitner, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society – New Series , 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 473 p.)

Contemporary deep-reaching changes – whether in financial or real economy, in Europe’s political conditions, in the context of scientific theories, in the field of global (environmental) security, or gender relations – are also a challenge to philosophy. The volume comprises cutting-edge scholarly articles from renowned philosophers with various geographical backgrounds and from different philosophical strands. Next to investigating general questions as to the relation of philosophy and critique (What is philosophical critique and which philosophical concepts of critique are of importance today? Where do we need it most? Where are its limits?), the articles focus on issues like theories of democracy and modes of election; the roles of emotions in the political realm; challenges from a widespread discontent in society to politics and science; changes to social identities and different theoretical approaches to social identity formation. The book is indispensable for all who are interested in what contemporary philosophy has to say on crucial issues of our time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Part 1: Philosophical Concepts of Critique -- The Conceptual Semantic Field of “Crisis” and “Critique” -- Critical Common/Common Critique -- Part 2: Challenges to Philosophical Critique in Politics, Economy, and Law -- Unpopular Sovereignties -- Politische Krise und Kritik im historischen Kontext -- Shklar versus Schmitt -- Zur aktuellen Krise von Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit -- Part 3: Challenges to Philosophical Critique in Culture and Society -- Language, Change, and Possible Worlds -- Methods of Social Critique -- Varieties of Resentment -- Civil Society as a Means against Hate Speech -- Criticizing Moral Criticism -- Part 4: Philosophical Critique and Questions of Social Identity -- Idiots and Assholes -- Between Necropolitics and Cosmopolitanism -- Kapitalismus und Identität -- Part 5: Science and Critique -- Testimony and the First-, Second-, and Third-Person Perspective -- Epistemic Disagreement, Doubts, and Coherence -- After Sustainability -- Part 6: Workshop on Ethics of Ecology -- What Is Biodiversity and Why Should It Be Protected? -- Should We Embrace a “New,” Expansionist Agenda for the Virtues? -- Klimagerechtigkeit -- Is Predation Necessarily Amoral? -- Part 7: Wittgenstein -- Wittgenstein Does Critical Theory -- Der Status der Mathematik in der Philosophie Wittgensteins -- Hase oder Ente? -- Der Verlust an Wahrhaftigkeit -- Index of Names -- List of Contributors