Futures of Critical Theory Dreams of Difference

by Peters, Michael A.; Olssen, Mark; Lankshear, Colin; Ashcroft, Bill; Biesta, Gert JJ; Braidotti, Rosi; Cheah, Pheng; Egea-Kuehn, Denise; Lankshear, Colin; Marshall, James D.; McLaren, Peter; Morss, John R.; Nash, Roy; Scott, David; Thomson, Iain; Trifonas,

• ISBN13: 9780742528604
• ISBN10: 074252860X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-02
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Written by internationally acclaimed scholars on futures of critical theory, this book attempts to renew and reinvigorate critical theory by extending its range and its intellectual trajectories through strategies of inclusiveness that respect and build on parallel traditions.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Futures of Critical Theory - Dreams of Difference	p. 1
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Critique of Modernity	p. 23
A Critical Theory of the Self: Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Foucault	p. 39
From the Question Concerning Technology to the Quest for a Democratic Technology: Heidegger, Marcuse, Feenberg	p. 59
Foucault and Critique: Kant, Humanism, and the Human Sciences	p. 73
Levinas's Ethicopolitical Order of Human Proximity: "The Quest for Justice"	p. 103
"Looking for Allies": Gilles Deleuze as Critical Theorist	p. 127
Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction = Justice	p. 141
The Postmodern Condition: Lyotard's Futurology	p. 155
Of Being-Two	p. 169
Pierre Bourdieu: The Craft of Sociology	p. 187
Slavoj Zizek's Naked Politics: Opting for the Impossible - A Secondary Elaboration	p. 197
Anthony Giddens - The Last Global Theorist	p. 229
Cyberfeminism with a Difference	p. 239
Edward Said: The Locatedness of Theory	p. 261
"Antiglobalization" and Guattari's The Three Ecologies	p. 275
Index	p. 289
About the Contributors	p. 293
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