Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781474425858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 296 str.

Gabriel Rockhill

Opis

With a critical eye, Gabriel Rockhill guides you through complex debates in history, politics and aesthetics, giving you an overview of key issues and central figures, including Foucault, Derrida, Castoriadis, Badiou and Ranciere.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Notes on Sources; Introduction: What Is an Intervention? Metaphilosophical Critique and the Reinvention of Contemporary Theory; I History: 1. How Do We Think the Present? From Ontology of Contemporary Reality to Ontology without Being; 2. The Right of Philosophy and the Facts of History: Foucault, Derrida, Descartes; 3. Aesthetic Revolution and Modern Democracy: Rancière’s Historiography; II Politics: 4. Is Difference a Value in Itself? Critique of a Metaphilosophical Axiology; 5. Castoriadis and the Tradition of Radical Critique; 6. The Hatred of Rancière: Democracy in the History of Political Cultures; III Aesthetics: 7. The Art of Talking Past One Another: The Badiou-Rancière Debate; 8. The Hermeneutics of Art and Political History in Rancière; 9. The Forgotten Political Art par excellence? Architecture, Design and the Social Sculpting of the Body Politic; Bibliography; Index.