Format:
Online-Ressource (172 p)
ISBN:
9780691123615
Content:
Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual and political value of critique itself. It renders contemporary the ancient jurisprudential meaning of critique as krisis, in which a tear in the fabric of justice becomes the occasion of a public sifting or thoughtfulness, the development of criteria for judgment, and the inauguration of p
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Contents; Preface; ONE: Untimeliness and Punctuality: Critical Theory in Dark Times; TWO: Political Idealization and Its Discontents; THREE: Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy; FOUR: At the Edge: The Future of Political Theory; FIVE: Freedom's Silences; SIX: Feminism Unbound: Revolution, Mourning, Politics; SEVEN: The Impossibility of Women's Studies; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400826872
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691123615
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Edgework : Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
Language:
English
Keywords:
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