An extended critique of academic life today and the context of our own thinking, Social Thought From the Ruins: Quixote's Dinner Party interrogates aspects of our modernity, with its pervasive sense of crisis and uncertainty, and the difficulty of thinking clearly about things like the state and power, data and violence.
An extended critique of academic life today and the context of our own thinking, Social Thought From the Ruins: Quixote's Dinner Party interrogates aspects of our modernity, with its pervasive sense of crisis and uncertainty, and the difficulty of thinking clearly about things like the state and power, data and violence.
David A. Westbrook is Louis A. Del Cotto Professor, University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York. His books include Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern (with Mark Maguire), and City of Gold: An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent.
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Introduction Beginning: An Invitation to a Dinner Party Part I Crises of Meaning 1. Ruins 2. Our Times Are Strange 3. Making the Contemporary Legible 4. Hope(less) 5. Notes from Underground Part II Curiosity 6. Curiosity Outside and Inside the University 7. The (In)tractable Future 8. Power I: A Critique of Received Narratives 9. Power II: Model Wars 10. Data and Conversation Part III Powerful Subjects 11. Why Do You Want to Talk to Us? 12. Reflection 13. Translation 14. Legitimation 15. Education Part IV New Buildings from Old Stones 16. Old Stones 17. Teaching 18. Getting There 19. To "Theory" and Back 20. A Seat at the Table Part V Hopes 21. Caritas in the People's University Part V Hopes 22. Humanizing Bureaucracy 23. Café Intellectuals 24. Philosophy in the Marketplace Ending: Books of Dreams
Introduction Beginning: An Invitation to a Dinner Party Part I Crises of Meaning 1. Ruins 2. Our Times Are Strange 3. Making the Contemporary Legible 4. Hope(less) 5. Notes from Underground Part II Curiosity 6. Curiosity Outside and Inside the University 7. The (In)tractable Future 8. Power I: A Critique of Received Narratives 9. Power II: Model Wars 10. Data and Conversation Part III Powerful Subjects 11. Why Do You Want to Talk to Us? 12. Reflection 13. Translation 14. Legitimation 15. Education Part IV New Buildings from Old Stones 16. Old Stones 17. Teaching 18. Getting There 19. To "Theory" and Back 20. A Seat at the Table Part V Hopes 21. Caritas in the People's University Part V Hopes 22. Humanizing Bureaucracy 23. Café Intellectuals 24. Philosophy in the Marketplace Ending: Books of Dreams
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