John E O'Brien

Critical Practice from Voltaire to Foucault, Eagleton and Beyond

Contested Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

Questioning the resistance to change of the West in constant crisis, and framed by early writings of Max Horkheimer and others, John E. O'Brien's historical-materialist method explores the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Schiller, Baudrillard, Foucault, Eagleton and Hayden White.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9789004214279
• ISBN-10: 9004214275
• Artikelnr.: 39688765

Autorenporträt

John E. O'Brien, Ph.D. (1971), University of Wisconsin, formerly Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Portland State University, Oregon, now independent researcher in Paris, with projects on the European Community and India, where he lectures on Systems Management in a Global Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Overview
1. What is Critical Practice?
2. Voltaire: Setting the Role of Public Intellectual
3. Schiller: Reform Consciousness to Change the World
4. Foucault: The End of Evasion
5. Jean Baudrillard: Critical Practice as Core Extraction
6. Eagleton: Literary Critic - Literature or Criticism?
7. Hayden White: Historic Truth as Story Telling
8. Liberation: Project, Method, Object
Appendix: Technical Note
References
Index