Critical Resistance

From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-262-08330-0
Verlag: MIT Press (MA)

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

This book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in
poststructuralist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussion of
this topic. How can a body of thought that mistrusts universal principles explain the possibility of
critical resistance? Without appeals to abstract norms, how can emancipatory resistance be
distinguished from domination? Can there be a poststructuralist ethics? David Hoy explores these
crucial questions through lucid readings of Nietzsche, Foucault, Bourdieu, Derrida, and others. He
traces the genealogy of resistance from Nietzsche's break with the Cartesian concept of
consciousness to Foucault's and Bourdieu's theories of how subjects are formed through embodied
social practices. He also considers Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida on the sources of ethical
resistance. Finally, in light of current social theory from Judith Butler to Slavoj Zizek, he
challenges "poststructuralism" as a category and suggests the term "post-critique" as a more
accurate description of contemporary Continental philosophy.Hoy is a leading American scholar of
poststructuralism. Critical Resistance is the only book in English that deals substantively with the
topical concept of resistance in relation to poststructuralist thought, discussions of which have
dominated Continental social thought for many years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoy, David Couzens

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Hoy, David Couzens
David Couzens Hoy is Distinguished Professor of Philosphy Emeritus at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of <I>Critical
Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique</I> (MIT Press,
2004).

David Couzens Hoy is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Critical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique (MIT Press, 2004).