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1 online resource |
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Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
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Studies in critical social sciences.
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| Contents |
Critical Practice from Voltaire to Foucault, Eagleton and Beyond; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Overview; The Method of Critique; Historical Roots of this Study; Institutional History and Cultural Criticism; Critical Theory in Question; Historical-Materialist Method; Who Are Critical Practitioners?; Historical-Materialist Invasion; 1. What is Critical Practice?; Modes of Critical Practice; Luc Boltanski: Social Science Critique; Spying on the World from the Library; Liberation; Elimination of all Social Differentiation?; Detective Work as Critical Social Science |
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Teresa Ebert: Humanities CritiqueBlame it on Dilthey; Is All Literature Criticism?; Theory as Method in Humanities; Interpretive Impasse; Submerging Truth in Layers of Linguistic Foam; Marx and Critique; Probing the Historicity of Material Reality; Chick-Lit and Capitalist Domination; Max Horkheimer: Meta-Critique; Stalking Western Civilization; What Historical Origins for Critical Theory?; Horkheimer's Bourgeois Philosophy; Machiavelli + Hobbes + Vico = Bourgeois Dystopia; Machiavelli's Vision; A False Good Idea?; Summary; 2. Voltaire: Setting the Role of Public Intellectual; On Vigilance |
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Critical JudgmentHere is Voltaire; Is Voltaire a Category Error?; Critical Perspective at the Margin; Battle Against Fanaticism; Encyclopedic Demystifications; Dangers of a Progressive Position; Intellectual Acumen; The Enlightenment Quagmire; Banished Realism; The Danger of Being Earnest; Assertively Modern; More Than Just Digging Up Dirt; Best of all Possible Worlds: Not Lisbon; Critical Value of the Systematically Absent; Creative Value of Negativity; Theater of Opposition; Candide as Tragicomedy; Revolutionary Praxis with a Hoe; Biography Trumping History? |
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Decency Flashes in a Dehumanized WorldMoral Rectitude in an Immoral World; Soft on Politics?; Disillusioned Utopian?; 3. Schiller: Reform Consciousness to Change the World; Here is Schiller; University Politics; Critical Production; A Man of Three Seasons; Revolutionary Theater; Setting the Scene for 'The Robbers'; The Curtain Falls; From Theater to Philosophy; Narrative Arc Defined; Social-Philosophy with Feeling; Goethe; Critical Tension: Materialist and Idealist; Freedom as Judgment; Revolution as Change in Consciousness; Beyond Beauty; Freedom Beyond Necessity as Grace |
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Dignity as Freedom's Higher CallingAesthetic Education: Revolution as an Inside Job; Play; Political Aesthetics; Late Drama; Hitting the Arrow on the Head; Revolution as Determined Political Action; Closing on Form; 4. Foucault: The End of Evasion; Foucault Uncorked; Gunning Away From the Intellectual Stratosphere; Critical Particulars; Sawing off the Limb on Which He Stood?; Ten Years Stalking a Doctorate; Modern Rationality as Institutional Abuse; From Literature to Student Upheaval; University Straitjacket of Conventional Thought?; Experimental University as Spectacle: Thinking Runs Wild |
| Summary |
Questioning the resistance to change of the West in constant crisis, and framed by early writings of Max Horkheimer and others, John E. O'Brien's historical-materialist method explores the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Schiller, Baudrillard, Foucault, Eagleton and Hayden White |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Voltaire, 1694-1778 -- Political and social views
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Political and social views
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Eagleton, Terry, 1943- -- Political and social views
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Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 -- Political and social views
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White, Hayden V., 1928-2018 -- Political and social views
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Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007 fast |
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Eagleton, Terry, 1943- fast |
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast |
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Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 fast |
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Voltaire, 1694-1778 fast |
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White, Hayden V., 1928-2018 fast |
| Subject |
Critical theory.
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critical theories (dialectical critiques)
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critical theory (sociological concept)
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Critical theory
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Political and social views
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
900426065X |
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9789004260658 |
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9789004214279 |
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9004214275 |
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