Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

by Sonderegger, Ruth; de Boer, Karin

• ISBN13: 9780230245228
• ISBN10: 0230245226
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Does philosophical critique have a future? What are its possibilities, limits, and presuppositions? This collection by outstanding scholars from various traditionsresponds to these questions by examining the forms of philosophical critique that have shaped continental thought from Spinoza and Kant to Marx, Foucault, Derrida, and Ranciere.

Author Biography

Karin de Boer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven Belgium. She is the author of Thinking in the Light of Time: Heidegger's Encounter with Hegel (2000) and On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative (2010). Ruth Sonderegger is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. She is the author of Fr eine sthetik des Spiels: Hermeneutik, Dekonstruktion und der Eigensinn der Kunst (2000) and the co-editor of Golden Years: Queere Subkultur zwischen 1959 und 1974 (2006).

Table of Contents

"De Boer and Sonderegger have compiled an invaluable historical inventory of conceptions of critique from Spinoza to Rancière. Beginning with a riveting essay by Judith Butler, who recalls that critique is the condition for dissent, this volume provides Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Foucault, among others, with fresh and challenging philosophical profiles. All students of critique will want this volume on their bookshelf." - Jay Bernstein, New School for Social Research, New York, USA

"This is a uniquely rich and diverse volume which offers both historical reconstructions of (mostly) post-Kantian conceptions of critique and evaluative discussions of the nature and future of critique as a method. I very much recommend this book to anyone interested in questions of normativity and justification." - Béatrice Han-Pile, University of Essex, UK