Critique today / / edited by Robert Sinnerbrink [and three others].

• Superior document: Social and critical theory ; 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Sinnerbrink, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Social and critical theory ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 303 p. )
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

What are the tasks and potentials of critical theory today? How should we critique the present? Critique Today brings together a variety of perspectives in critical social philosophy that question our social and historical constellation. It includes contributions by Genevieve Lloyd, Shane O'Neill, Paul Patton, Paul Redding, Emmanuel Renault, and Nicholas Smith, and examines critical intersections in the work of Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, and Giorgio Agamben. Critique Today aims to further the ongoing dialogue between German critical theory and French post-structuralism, explores the relationship between philosophy and social theory, and develops new approaches to Hegel and theories of recognition, the theme of social hope, and contemporary discussions of rights and power.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1 Critique, Hope, Power: Challenges of Contemporary Critical Theory -- Chapter 2 Providence Lost: 'September 11' and the History of Evil -- Chapter 3 Hope and Critical Theory -- Chapter 4 Hope, Critique, and Utopia -- Chapter 5 Hegel, Habermas, and the Spirit of Critical Theory -- Chapter 6 Habermas: A Reasonable Utopian? -- Chapter 7 Critical Theory, Democratic Justice and Globalisation -- Chapter 8 Radical Democracy and an Abolitionist Concept of Justice. A Critique of Habermas' Theory of Justice -- Chapter 9 The Loss of Nature in Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy. Rereading Mead with Merleau-Ponty -- Chapter 10 Pierre Bourdieu: From Neo-Kantian to Hegelian Critical Social Theory -- Chapter 11 Reason and the Restlessness of the Speculative: Jean-Luc Nancy's Reading of Hegel -- Chapter 12 Polytheism, Monotheism and Public Space: Between Levinas and Arendt -- Chapter 13 From Machenschaft to Biopolitics: A Genealogical Critique of Biopower -- Chapter 14 Foucault, Critique and Rights -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.