Edgework
eBook - ePub

Edgework

Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Edgework

Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics

About this book

Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual and political value of critique itself. It renders contemporary the ancient jurisprudential meaning of critique as krisis, in which a tear in the fabric of justice becomes the occasion of a public sifting or thoughtfulness, the development of criteria for judgment, and the inauguration of political renewal or restoration. Each essay probes a contemporary problem--the charge of being unpatriotic for dissenting from U.S. foreign policy, the erosion of liberal democracy by neoliberal political rationality, feminism's loss of a revolutionary horizon--and seeks to grasp the intellectual impasse the problem signals as well as the political incitement it may harbor.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. One. Untimeliness and Punctuality: Critical Theory in Dark Times
  7. Two. Political Idealization and Its Discontents
  8. Three. Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy
  9. Four. At the Edge: The Future of Political Theory
  10. Five. Freedom’s Silences
  11. Six. Feminism Unbound: Revolution, Mourning, Politics
  12. Seven. The Impossibility of Women’s Studies
  13. Notes
  14. Index