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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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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.