Bibliograph

Critique as a modern social phenomenon, the critical society, Tom Boland ; with a foreword by Arpad Szakolczai

Type

Label

Critique as a modern social phenomenon, the critical society, Tom Boland ; with a foreword by Arpad Szakolczai

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-410) and index

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Critique as a modern social phenomenon

Oclc number

854688988

Responsibility statement

Tom Boland ; with a foreword by Arpad Szakolczai

Sub title

the critical society

Summary

What are the origins and purposes of social critique? This book explores how critique has been taken for granted by scholars, and how it can be recuperated as a moving force in history. It analyses critique as a social phenomenon--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

1. The Critic's Paradox; 2. Towards and Anthropology of Critique; 3. Historicity of Critique; 4. Critical Subjectivity: Towards a Gnomonic model of subject constitution; 5. The Circus of Critique: On the Public Sphere; 6. The Economic Reality and All-Consuming Critiques; 7. Political Critiques: The cases of Occupy and Ordo-Liberalism; 8. Literature as insight into critique: Experience and Conversion

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