Critical Practice from Voltaire to Foucault, Eagleton and Beyond

Contested Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-21427-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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.

In spite of recurrent crises due to a flawed Western political-economy, why is there so much critical intellectual activity with so little effect? Framing his study with the early work by Max Horkheimer, Luc Boltanski and Teresa Ebert, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Brien, John E

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface
Overview

1. What is Critical Practice?

2. Voltaire: Setting the Role of Public Intellectual

3. Schiller: Reform Consciousness to Change the World

4. Foucault: The End of Evasion

5. Jean Baudrillard: Critical Practice as Core Extraction

6. Eagleton: Literary Critic – Literature or Criticism?

7. Hayden White: Historic Truth as Story Telling

8. Liberation: Project, Method, Object

Appendix: Technical Note
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.