03357nam 2200589 450 991081680880332120200903223051.090-04-26065-X10.1163/9789004260658(CKB)3710000000078117(EBL)1579992(SSID)ssj0001080915(PQKBManifestationID)11719424(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001080915(PQKBWorkID)11088996(PQKB)11422432(MiAaPQ)EBC1579992(nllekb)BRILL9789004260658(Au-PeEL)EBL1579992(CaPaEBR)ebr10819090(CaONFJC)MIL551234(OCoLC)866442519(PPN)178932353(EXLCZ)99371000000007811720140103d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCritical practice from voltaire to foucault, eagleton and beyond contested perspectives /by John E. O'BrienLeiden, Netherlands :Brill,2014.©20141 online resource (519 p.)Studies in critical social sciences,1573-4234 ;Volume 61Description based upon print version of record.90-04-21427-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material /John E. O’Brien -- Overview /John E. O’Brien -- What is Critical Practice? /John E. O’Brien -- Voltaire: Setting the Role of Public Intellectual /John E. O’Brien -- Schiller: Reform Consciousness to Change the World /John E. O’Brien -- Foucault: The End of Evasion /John E. O’Brien -- Jean Baudrillard: Critical Practice as Core Extraction /John E. O’Brien -- Eagleton: Literary Critic – Literature or Criticism? /John E. O’Brien -- Hayden White: Historic Truth as Story Telling /John E. O’Brien -- Liberation: Project, Method, Object /John E. O’Brien -- Technical Note /John E. O’Brien -- Bibliography /John E. O’Brien -- Index /John E. O’Brien.Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O’Brien investigates the problems and prospects of cultural criticism for the 21st century through absorbing studies of the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Friedrich Schiller, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Terry Eagleton and Hayden White. In spite of recurrent crises due to a flawed Western political-economy, why is there so much critical intellectual activity with so little effect? Framing his study with the early work by Max Horkheimer, Luc Boltanski and Teresa Ebert, O’Brien's investigation of resistance in America and Europe challenges the bourgeois philosophy of history, pointing to the urgency of critique as mode of analysis and intervention.Studies in critical social sciences ;v. 61.Critical theoryCritical theory.301.092/2O'Brien John E1026257MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816808803321Critical practice from voltaire to foucault, eagleton and beyond4027079UNINA