The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics

Kathrin Thiele; Timothy O&#039;Leary; Birgit M. Kaiser

doi:10.5771/9781786616470

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The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to a plurality of critical perspectives. The volume’s reflections move critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic, deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or those endebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the interdisciplinary research network Terra Critica.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78661-646-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78661-647-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 226
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Critique No access
2. Methods, Institutions, Politics No access
3. The Ends of Critique: Overview No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Critical Conundrum No access
  2. After Human(ism) No access
  3. Re-Turning No access
  4. Hope at the End of the World as “We” Know It? No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
2. 1. The Logic of the Gift in Given Time No access
  2. The Impure Pure Gift: Counterfeit Money No access
  3. The Most Difficult Task No access
  4. On the Death Penalty No access
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  6. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Notes No access
  2. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Whose Limits? No access
  2. This Strange Critical Entity No access
  3. New Logi(isti)cs of Critique No access
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1. 1. From Reading Symptoms to Uncritical Description No access
  2. Derrida and Wynter: From Rereading to Rewriting No access
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2. 1. 1. Appropriative Reading: Spivak Reading Fanon Reading Hegel No access
  2. Thwarting Governing Fictions No access
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  4. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Vivisection, Literal and Metaphorical No access
  2. A Novel Experiment No access
  3. Engaging with Ethical Sensibility No access
  4. The Ends of Critique No access
  5. Bibliography No access
1. 1. An Origin Story No access
  2. An Early Twentieth-Century American Cautionary Tale No access
  3. Worshipping “Dog” No access
  4. From “God” to “Dog” No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
2. 1. “Like That and at That Cost” No access
  2. “To Be Governed” No access
  3. “By Our Digital Technologies” No access
  4. “Not” No access
  5. “How” No access
  6. Uncomfortable Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
3. 1. From Critical Act to Political Substance? No access
  2. A Brief for Falsification No access
  3. A Brief for Failures No access
  4. The Operator of Defection No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 219 - 222
About the Contributors No access Pages 223 - 226