Interventions in contemporary thought : history, politics, aesthetics /
A critical intervention in contemporary theoretical debates on history, politics and aesthetics. With the aim of rethinking the state and stakes of contemporary theory, Gabriel Rockhill critically works through some of the most important recent philosophical writings on the intertwined topics of his...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Notes on Sources; Introduction: What Is an Intervention? Metaphilosophical Critique and the Reinvention of Contemporary Theory; I History: 1. How Do We Think the Present? From Ontology of Contemporary Reality to Ontology without Being; 2. The Right of Philosophy and the Facts of History: Foucault, Derrida, Descartes; 3. Aesthetic Revolution and Modern Democracy: Rancière's Historiography; II Politics: 4. Is Difference a Value in Itself? Critique of a Metaphilosophical Axiology; 5. Castoriadis and the Tradition of Radical Critique; 6. The Hatred of Rancière: Democracy in the History of Political Cultures; III Aesthetics: 7. The Art of Talking Past One Another: The Badiou-Rancière Debate; 8. The Hermeneutics of Art and Political History in Rancière; 9. The Forgotten Political Art par excellence? Architecture, Design and the Social Sculpting of the Body Politic; Bibliography; Index.