Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Critique, Dissent, Disciplinarity J.Butler Spinoza or the Other Critique A.Tosel Rousseau, Kant, and Philosophical Auto-Criticism: The Practical Ends of Critical Thinking P.Quadrio Beyond the Limits of Reason: Kant, Critique, and Enlightenment C.McQuillan Hegel's Conception of Immanent Critique: its Sources, Extent, and Limit K. de Boer Karl Marx: Critique as Emancipatory Practice R.Celikates Nietzsche's Genealogy as Performative Critique J.I.Porter Psychoanalytic Critique and Beyond E.Rottenberg The Interruption of Myth: Walter Benjamin's Concept of Critique T.Lijster Adorno's Critique of Late Capitalism: Negative, Explanatory, and Practical F.Freyenhagen Habermas' Social Theory: The Critical Power of Communicative Rationality M.Cooke Prophecy and Parre?sia : Foucauldian Critique and the Political Role of Intellectuals C.Hendricks Derrida: Echoes of the Forthcoming O.Custer Negative versus Affirmative Critique: On Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Ranciere R.Sonderegger Index