A time for critique /
edited by Didier Fassin and Bernard E. Harcourt.
- 308 p .: 23 cm.
- New directions in critical theory .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction, by Didier Fassin and Bernard E. Harcourt; Part I: Critique as Practice; 1. How Is Critique?, by Didier Fassin; 2. Critique as a Political Practice of Freedom, by Linda M. G. Zerilli; 3. Critique Without a Politics of Hope?, by Ayşe Parla; 4. The Usefulness of Uncertain Critique, by Peter Redfield; 5. Human Rights Consciousness and Critique, by Karen Engle; 6. Critique as Subduction, by Massimiliano Tomba; 7. What's Left of the Real?, by Vanja Hamzić; Part II: Critique in Practice 8. Subaltern Critique and the History of Palestine, by Lori Allen9. Critical Theory in a Minor Key to Take Stock of the Syrian Revolution, by Fadi A. Bardawil; 10. Pragmatic Critique of Torture in Sri Lanka, by Nick Cheesman; 11. Dispossession, Reimagined from the 1690s, by David Kazanjian; 12. Crisis, Critique, and Abolition, by Andrew Dilts; 13. Law, Critique, and the Undercommons, by Allegra M. McLeod; 14. Critical Praxis for the Twenty- First Century, by Bernard E. Harcourt; List of Contributors; Index
In A Time for Critique, Didier Fassin, Bernard E. Harcourt, and a group of eminent political theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, literary and legal scholars reflect on the multiplying contexts and forms of critical discourses and on the social actors and social movements engaged in them.