Critical Practice From Voltaire To Foucault, Eagleton And Beyond: Contested Perspectives

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 61

AvJohn E. O'Brien

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O'Brien investigates the problems and prospects of cultural criticism for the 21st century through absorbing studies of the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Friedrich Schiller, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Terry Eagleton and Hayden White. O'Brien's investigation of resistance in America and Europe challenges the bourgeois philosophy of history, pointing to the urgency of critique as mode of analysis and intervention.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-03-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 31 mm
Vikt:697 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Antal sidor:504
Förlag:Haymarket Books
ISBN:9781608464210

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

John E. O'Brien, Ph.D. (1971), University of Wisconsin, formerly Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Portland State University, Oregon, now independent researcher in Paris, with projects on the European Community and India, where he lectures on Systems Management in a Global Political Economy.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsPrefaceOverview1. What is Critical Practice?2. Voltaire: Setting the Role of Public Intellectual3. Schiller: Reform Consciousness to Change the World4. Foucault: The End of Evasion5. Jean Baudrillard: Critical Practice as Core Extraction6. Eagleton: Literary Critic – Literature or Criticism?7. Hayden White: Historic Truth as Story Telling8. Liberation: Project, Method, ObjectAppendix: Technical NoteReferencesIndex