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

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'Nei...

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Superior document:Social and critical theory ; 3
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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
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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.