Edgework

Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-691-12361-5
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

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 political renewal or restoration. Each essay probes a contemporary problem--the charge of being unpatriotic for dissenting from U.S. foreign policy, the erosion of liberal democracy by neoliberal political rationality, feminism's loss of a revolutionary horizon--and seeks to grasp the intellectual impasse the problem signals as well as the political incitement it may harbor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Chapter One: Untimeliness and Punctuality: Critical Theory in Dark Times 1

Chapter Two: Political Idealization and Its Discontents 17

Chapter Three: Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy 37

Chapter Four: At the Edge: The Future of Political Theory 60

Chapter Five: Freedom?s Silences 83

Chapter Six: Feminism Unbound: Revolution, Mourning, Politics 98

Chapter Seven: The Impossibility of Women?s Studies 116

Notes 137

Index 155