Critical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique - Couverture rigide

Hoy, David Couzens

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262083302 ISBN 13 : 9780262083300

Editeur : Bradford Books, 2004

Synopsis

This book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussion of this topic. How can a body of thought that mistrusts universal principles explain the possibility of critical resistance? Without appeals to abstract norms, how can emancipatory resistance be distinguished from domination? Can there be a poststructuralist ethics? David Hoy explores these crucial questions through lucid readings of Nietzsche, Foucault, Bourdieu, Derrida, and others. He traces the genealogy of resistance from Nietzsche's break with the Cartesian concept of consciousness to Foucault's and Bourdieu's theories of how subjects are formed through embodied social practices. He also considers Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida on the sources of ethical resistance. Finally, in light of current social theory from Judith Butler to Slavoj Zizek, he challenges "poststructuralism" as a category and suggests the term "post-critique" as a more accurate description of contemporary Continental philosophy.Hoy is a leading American scholar of poststructuralism. Critical Resistance is the only book in English that deals substantively with the topical concept of resistance in relation to poststructuralist thought, discussions of which have dominated Continental social thought for many years.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Couzens Hoy is Distinguished Professor of Philosphy Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Critical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique (MIT Press, 2004).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bradford Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262083302
• ISBN 13: 9780262083300
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible