Does philosophical critique have a future? What are its possibilities, limits and presuppositions? This collection by outstanding scholars from various traditions, responds to these questions by examining the forms of philosophical critique that have shaped continental thought from Spinoza and Kant to Marx, Foucault, Derrida and Rancière.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2011

ISBN

9780230357006

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Philosophy History & Theory

Cover
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Critique, Dissent, Disciplinarity
2 Spinoza or the Other Critique
3 Rousseau, Kant and Philosophical Auto-Criticism: The Practical Ends of Critical Thinking
4 Beyond the Limits of Reason: Kant, Critique and Enlightenment
5 Hegel’s Conception of Immanent Critique: Its Sources, Extent and Limit
6 Karl Marx: Critique as Emancipatory Practice
7 Nietzsche’s Genealogy as Performative Critique
8 Psychoanalytic Critique and Beyond
9 The Interruption of Myth: Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Critique
10 Adorno’s Critique of Late Capitalism: Negative, Explanatory and Practical
11 Habermas’s Social Theory: The Critical Power of Communicative Rationality
12 Prophecy and Parresia: Foucauldian Critique and the Political Role of Intellectuals
13 Derrida: Echoes of the Forthcoming
14 Negative versus Affirmative Critique: On Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière
Index