Critique As a Modern Social Phenomenon : the Critical Society.

What are the origins and purposes of social critique? Rather than use critique as a mode of investigating social phenomenon, this book analyses critique as a social phenomenon. Critique is both constitutive of modernity and exceedingly diverse, and not only that but widely taken for granted in schol...

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Main Author: Boland, Tom
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
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505 0 |a CRITIQUE AS A MODERN SOCIAL PHENOMENON: The Critical Society; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Abstract; Foreword; Preface; 1. The Critic's Paradox; 2. Towards an Anthropology of Critique; 3. The Historicity of Critique; 4. Critical Subjectivity: Towards a Gnomonic model of subject constitution; 5. The Circus of Critique: On the Public Sphere.; 6. The Economic Reality and All-Consuming Critiques; 7. Political Critiques: The cases of Occupy and Ordo-liberalism; 8. Literature as insight into critique: Experience and Conversion; 9. Romanticism and the Subjectification of Critique. 
505 8 |a 10. Overcoming Critique with Love: The Insights of Jane Austen11. Critique as Imitative Rivalry: George Orwell as Political Anthropologist; 12. Conclusion: The Limits of Critique; Bibliography; Index. 
520 |a What are the origins and purposes of social critique? Rather than use critique as a mode of investigating social phenomenon, this book analyses critique as a social phenomenon. Critique is both constitutive of modernity and exceedingly diverse, and not only that but widely taken for granted in scholarly communities. Herein, the resources of historical sociology and anthropology are used in order to gain perspective on critique as something culturally specific to modernity. Based on this, I analyze critique as moving force in history, part of the dynamic of capitalism and consumerism, a recurri. 
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