Critique of Critique

Roy Ben-Shai (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2023
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3268-4 (ISBN)

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What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book reawakens the foundational question of what 'critique' is in the first place. Roy Ben-Shai inspects critique as an orientation of critical thinking, probing its structures and assumptions, its limits and its risks, its history and its possibilities. The book is a journey through a landscape of ideas, images, and texts from diverse sources—theological, psychological, etymological, and artistic, but mainly across the history of philosophy, from Plato and Saint Augustine, through Kant and Hegel, Marx and Heidegger, up to contemporary critical theory.

Along the way, Ben-Shai invites the reader to examine their own orientation of thought, even at the moment of reading the book; to question popular discourse; and to revisit the philosophical canon, revealing affinities among often antagonistic traditions, such as Catholicism and Marxism. Most importantly, Critique of Critique sets the ground for an examination of alternative orientations of critical thinking, other ways of inhabiting and grasping the world.

Roy Ben-Shai is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College.

Introduction: Critique as Orientation

Overture

1. Chapter 1: Critique of the Spectacle or the Spectacle of Critique

2. Chapter 2: Critique of Power or the Power of Critique

3. Chapter 3: Critique of Injustice or the Injustice of Critique

4. Chapter 4: Critique of External Authority or the External Authority of Critique

5. Chapter 5: Moral Ontologies of Critique

6. Chapter 6: Political Ontologies of Critique

7. Chapter 7: Topologies of Critique

8. Chapter 8: Chronologies of Critique

Conclusion: Critique and Its Betrayals.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
Zusatzinfo	1 halftone
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5036-3268-7 / 1503632687
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3268-4 / 9781503632684
Zustand	Neuware