Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Critique, Dissent, Disciplinarity....Pages 10-29
Spinoza or the Other Critique....Pages 30-47
Rousseau, Kant and Philosophical Auto-Criticism: The Practical Ends of Critical Thinking....Pages 48-65
Beyond the Limits of Reason: Kant, Critique and Enlightenment....Pages 66-82
Hegel’s Conception of Immanent Critique: Its Sources, Extent and Limit....Pages 83-100
Karl Marx: Critique as Emancipatory Practice....Pages 101-118
Nietzsche’s Genealogy as Performative Critique....Pages 119-136
Psychoanalytic Critique and Beyond....Pages 137-155
The Interruption of Myth: Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Critique....Pages 156-174
Adorno’s Critique of Late Capitalism: Negative, Explanatory and Practical....Pages 175-192
Habermas’s Social Theory: The Critical Power of Communicative Rationality....Pages 193-211
Prophecy and Parrēsia: Foucauldian Critique and the Political Role of Intellectuals....Pages 212-230
Derrida: Echoes of the Forthcoming....Pages 231-247
Negative versus Affirmative Critique: On Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière....Pages 248-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-270