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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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.
