Spectacle of Critique

From Philosophy to Cacophony

AvTom Boland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation and denunciation around all political issues. The technique of unmasking ‘power’ or ‘hegemony’ or ‘ideology’ has now been adopted across the political spectrum, where critical discourses are routinely used to suggest that anything and everything is only a ‘construct’ or even a ‘conspiracy’. This book draws on anthropological theory to provide a different perspective on this phenomenon; critique appears as a liminal predicament combining imitative polemical and schismatic urges with a haunting sense of uncertainty. It thereby addresses a central academic concern, with a special focus on political critique in the public sphere and within social media. Combining historical interrogations of the roots of critique, as well as examining contemporary political discourse in relation to populism, as seen in presidential elections, historical commemorations and welfare reform, The Spectacle of Critique uses anthropology and genealogy to offer a new sociology of critique that problematises critique and diagnoses its crisis, cultivating acritical and imaginative ways of thinking.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:406 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contemporary Liminality
Antal sidor:174
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138564299

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

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Tom Boland is Lecturer in Sociology at Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. His research focuses on critique, literature and unemployment. He is the author of Critique as a Modern Social Phenomenon and co-author of The Sociology of Unemployment.

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Acknowledgements1. The tragedy of critique2. The sound and the fury: The insights and limits of the critique of critique.3. The experience of critique: Inside permanent liminality4. Critique is history?: Understanding a tradition of tradition-breaking5. Unthinking critical thinking: The reduction of philosophy to negative logic6. The cacophony of critique: Populist radicals and hegemonic dissent7. Asocial media: An auto-ethnography of on-line critiques8. Towards acritical theoryBibliographyIndex

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