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English | ISBN: 1478026081 | 2024 | 304 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique. Bringing together essays by a diverse group of historians and literary scholars, editors Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly demonstrate that critique is about acknowledging that we are never simply writing better or worse accounts of the past, but accounts of the present as well. The contributors examine topics ranging from the indeterminacy of knowledge and history to Black speculative writing and nineteenth-century epistemology, the role of the unconscious in settler colonialism, and early American writing about masturbation, repression, religion, and secularism and their respective influence on morality. The contributors also offer vital new interpretations of major lines of thought in the history of critique-especially those relating to Freud and Foucault-that will be valuable both for scholars of early American studies and for scholars of the humanities and interpretive social sciences more broadly.

Free Download Ruben Moi, "Literature's Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice"
English | ISBN: 1666952583 | 2024 | 222 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1059 KB + 2 MB
Literature is an institution per se, as is justice, and these two institutions enact each other in complex ways. Justice appears in many forms from divine right and religious ordainment to metaphysical imperative and natural law, to national jurisdiction, social order, human rights, and civil disobedience. What is just and right has varied in time and place, in war and peace. A sense of justice appears inextricable from human concerns of ethics and morals. Literature includes a vast range of writing from holy texts to banned books. Parts of literature, particularly in the past, have laid down the law. In more recent history, literature has gradually assumed radical roles of critique, subversion, and transformation of the existing law and order, in contents, themes, language, and form. Literature's Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice

Free Download Roy Ben-Shai, "Critique of Critique "
English | ISBN: 1503633829 | 2023 | 258 pages | PDF | 1385 KB
What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book reawakens the foundational question of what 'critique' is in the first place. Roy Ben-Shai inspects critique as an orientation of critical thinking, probing its structures and assumptions, its limits and its risks, its history and its possibilities. The book is a journey through a landscape of ideas, images, and texts from diverse sources-theological, psychological, etymological, and artistic, but mainly across the history of philosophy, from Plato and Saint Augustine, through Kant and Hegel, Marx and Heidegger, up to contemporary critical theory. Along the way, Ben-Shai invites the reader to examine their own orientation of thought, even at the moment of reading the book; to question popular discourse; and to revisit the philosophical canon, revealing affinities among often antagonistic traditions, such as Catholicism and Marxism. Most importantly,

Free Download A Genealogy of the Good and Critique of Hubris: A History of the Discourse on Social Welfare in the United States
by Phillip Dybicz
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197670075 | 440 Pages | True ePUB | 1.05 MB

Free Download A Genealogy of the Good and Critique of Hubris: A History of the Discourse on Social Welfare in the United States
by Phillip Dybicz
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197670075 | 440 Pages | True PDF | 32 MB

Free Download Gareth Dale, "Reconstructing Karl Polanyi: excavation and critique"
English | 2016 | pages: 257 | ISBN: 0745335187, 0745335195 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Karl Polanyi was one of the most influential political economists of the twentieth-century and is widely regarded as the most gifted of social democrat theorists. In Reconstructing Karl Polanyi, Gareth Dale draws upon primary sources archived in the countries that Polanyi called home-Hungary, Austria, Britain, the United States, and Canada-to provide a sweeping survey of his contribution to the social sciences.

Free Download Kant, Critique and Politics By Kimberly Hutchings
1995 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0415105072 | EPUB | 1 MB
Why does the ghost of Kant continue to haunt contemporary critical theory? Kant, Critique and Politics examines the influence of Kantian critique on the work of such major and diverse theorists as Habermas, Arendt, Foucault and Lyotard. It offers an entirely new reading of Kant, challenging the orthodox distinctions between modernist and postmodernist theorizing, by illuminating how Kant's influence continues to structure critical debate.This is the first book to offer both a systematic reading of Kant and to contextualise his work in the light of the continental tradition. It will be central to political philosophers and students of international relations and feminist theory.

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English | 2015 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1785602470 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and practice of progress - including the theory and practice of social critique - have gone through an unexpected and momentous revival, renewal and rejuvenation. This is due in large part to the proliferation of manifest crises in the early years of the twenty-first century. The terrorist attacks in September of 2001, the financial crisis of 2008 that spawned the Great Recession, the Euro crisis that began in fall 2010 - these events provided glimpses of the existing system of political economy, and opportunities to begin to grasp and reveal the ongoing reconstruction of business-labor-government relations in the early 21st century. Yet, in a variety of ways, the notions that theories and practices of rigorous social critique in and of modern societies could become outdated, or that they were based on a categorical misunderstanding of the nature of social, economic, political and cultural life in the modern world, were symptomatic of an ongoing reconfiguration of the system of political economy itself.

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by Pierre Legrand
English | 2023 | ISBN: 036772300X | 317 Pages | True ePUB | 1.2 MB

Free Download Comparative Law and the Task of Negative Critique
by Pierre Legrand
English | 2023 | ISBN: 036772300X | 317 Pages | True PDF | 18 MB