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Critical practice from Voltaire to Foucault, Eagleton and beyond : contested perspectives /

Questioning the resistance to change of the West in constant crisis, and framed by early writings of Max Horkheimer and others, John E. O'Brien's historical-materialist method explores the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Schiller, Baudrillard, Foucault, Eagleton and Hayden White.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Brien, John E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Colección:Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 61.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Overview
  • What is critical practice?
  • Voltaire : setting the role of public intellectual
  • Schiller : reform consciousness to change the world
  • Foucault : the end of evasion
  • Jean Baudrillard : critical practice as core extraction
  • Eagleton : literary critic : literature or criticism?
  • Hayden White : historic truth as story telling
  • Liberation : project, method, object
  • Appendix: technical note
  • Bibliography
  • Index.