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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824297203321

Autore

Mackenzie Iain M.

Titolo

The idea of pure critique / / Iain Mackenzie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum, 2004

ISBN

1-4725-4689-X

1-281-29890-5

9786611298906

1-84714-180-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 p.)

Collana

Tranversals : new directions in philosophy

Disciplina

142

Soggetti

Criticism (Philosophy)

Apathy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-111) and index

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Kant and the Critique of Indifference; Chapter Two: Philosophy as Pure Critique; Chapter Three: Four Problems with Pure Critique; Conclusion: The Idea of Pure Critique; Afterword; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is required of the idea of critique if it is to overcome indifference? This question addresses core themes in modern, post-Kantian and European philosophy, challenging theory's resignation in the face of contemporary political and economic formations. If indifference is to be overcome, critique must be demarcated in its purity, as an idea of critique in and of itself. For the idea of critique to become pure we must view critique as the construction of difference-only pure critique, as the construction of difference, can overcome our current age of indifference. The Idea of Pure Critique will appeal to students of Kant as well as to the many interested in Deleuze and Guattari's contribution to philosophies of difference. More fundamentally, the book presents a series of political and philosophical challenges to the apathy that pervades modern forms of life