Domination and Emancipation (eBook, ePUB)

Remaking Critique
Redaktion: Benson, Daniel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A melancholy defeatism has become a hallmark of critical thought and leftist politics. A consequence of this has been an exaggerated focus on domination among critical theorists, leaving emancipation-along with questions of political organization and strategy-undertheorized at best, or disregarded as delusional, at worst. If emancipation still plays a role in critical reflection, it is most often in a "domesticated" form, made into a bedfellow of centrist liberalism. Recent events necessitate a different outlook, especially since the financial collapse of 2008 and the myriad movements-emancipatory as much as reactionary-it has spawned throughout the world. Through a series of dialogues and reflections by leading thinkers, scholars, and activists, Domination and Emancipation: Remaking Critique seeks to rebuild the emancipatory pole of critique and bring forward theoretical work that is in step with the struggles and aspirations of the moment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786607010
• Artikelnr.: 62731537

Autorenporträt

Luc Boltanski is a leading French sociologist and professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. Many of his works have been translated into English, including The New Spirit of Capitalism, On Justification, On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation, Love and Justice as Competence, and Mysteries and Conspiracies. Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb professor of political and social science at the New School for Social Research. Her many publications include Fortunes of Feminism, Scales of Justice, Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics, and Redistribution or Recognition? (with Axel Honneth). Daniel Benson (the translator) is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the French department at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Translations
Introduction
Daniel Benson
Part I: Dialogues
1 Domination and Emancipation: For a Revival of Social Critique
Luc Boltanski and Nancy Fraser
2 Domination and Emancipation in the Current Conjuncture
Philippe Corcuff and Gabriel Rockhill
Part II: Emancipatory Subjects
3 Emancipation, Political and Real
Asad Haider
4 On a Critical Realist Theory of Identity
Rosaura Sánchez
Part III: Counter-Histories
5 Critical and Revolutionary Theory: For the Reinvention of Critique in the
Age of Ideological Realignment
Gabriel Rockhill
6 Like a Riot: The Politics of Forgetfulness, Relearning the South, and the
Island of Dr. Moreau Françoise Vergès
Part IV: Critical Tensions
7 Emancipation, Domination, and Critical Theory in the Anthropocene
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
8 Renewing Critical Theory in an Ultra-Conservative Context: between the
Social Sciences, Political Philosophy, and Emancipatory Engagement
Philippe Corcuff
9 Politics in Tensions. Counter-Currents