TY - BOOK ID - 78076084 TI - Critical practice from Voltaire to Foucault, Eagleton and beyond PY - 2014 SN - 900426065X 9789004260658 9789004214279 9004214275 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Critical theory. KW - Critical social theory KW - Critical theory (Philosophy) KW - Critical theory (Sociology) KW - Negative philosophy KW - Criticism (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Rationalism KW - Sociology KW - Frankfurt school of sociology KW - Socialism KW - Voltaire, KW - Foucault, Michel, KW - Eagleton, Terry, KW - Schiller, Friedrich, KW - Eagleton, Terence, KW - Eagleton, T. F. KW - Igŭltŭn, Teri, KW - von Schiller, Friedrich KW - Schiller, Jean Christophe Frédéric KW - von Schiller, KW - von Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich KW - Fūkūh, Mīshīl, KW - Foucault, Michael, KW - Fuko, Mišel, KW - Pʻukʻo, KW - Pʻukʻo, Misyel, KW - Phoukō, Misel, KW - Fuke KW - 福柯 KW - Fuḳo, Mishel, KW - Voltaire KW - de Voltaire, F.-M. A. KW - Vadé, Guillaume KW - M. de V. KW - Bazin KW - Arouet, François Marie KW - Political and social views. KW - Swillŏ, Pʻŭridŭrihi, KW - Hsi-lo, KW - Shiler, Fridrikh, KW - Schiller, Friedrich von, KW - Shiller, Fridrikh, KW - Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, KW - Schiller, Frederick, KW - Hsi-le, KW - Shiller, F. KW - Schiller, Frideriko, KW - Šileri, Pʻridrix, KW - Šileris, Frydrichas, KW - Schiller, J. C. F. von KW - פריגריך פאן שיללער, KW - שיללער KW - שיללער פריעדריך KW - שיללער, פרידריך KW - שיללער, פרידריך, KW - שיללער, פ., KW - שילער, פרידריך KW - שילער, פרידריך, KW - שילר, יוהן כריסטוף פרידדריך פון, KW - שילר, יוהן כריסטוף פרידריך פון, KW - שילר, פרידריך KW - שילר, פרידריך, KW - שילר, פ. KW - שלר, פרידריך, KW - Schiller, J. C. Friedrich von UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78076084 AB - 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. ER -