Critical Practice from Voltaire to Foucault, Eagleton and Beyond
John E. O'Brien
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Paperback. Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 700.
Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O'Brien investigates the problems and prospects of cultural criticism for the 21st century through absorbing studies of the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Friedrich Schiller, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Terry Eagleton and Hayden White. O'Brien's investigation of resistance in America and Europe challenges the bourgeois philosophy of history, pointing to the urgency of critique as mode of analysis and intervention.
Using the historical-materialist method to unravel the promise and limits of critical practice since the Revolutionary Age, John E. O'Brien investigates the problems and prospects of cultural criticism for the 21st century through absorbing studies of the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Friedrich Schiller, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Terry Eagleton and Hayden White. O'Brien's investigation of resistance in America and Europe challenges the bourgeois philosophy of history, pointing to the urgency of critique as mode of analysis and intervention.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Haymarket Books United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781608464210
SKU
V9781608464210
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About John E. O'Brien
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.
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