Edgework Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics

Name: Edgework Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
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ISBN: 9780691123615

ISBN-10: 0691123616

ISBN-13: 9780691123615

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Wendy Brown

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Edgeworkbrings 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.Edgeworkis 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…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface



Untimeliness and Punctuality: Critical Theory in Dark Times



Political Idealization and Its Discontents



Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy



At the Edge: The Future of Political Theory



Freedom's Silences



Feminism Unbound: Revolution, Mourning, Politics



The Impossibility of Women's Studies


Notes


Index