Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Critique, Dissent, Disciplinarity; J.Butler Spinoza or the Other Critique; A.Tosel Rousseau, Kant, and Philosophical Auto-Criticism: The Practical Ends of Critical Thinking; P.Quadrio Beyond the Limits of Reason: Kant, Critique, and Enlightenment; C.McQuillan Hegel's Conception of Immanent Critique: its Sources, Extent, and Limit; K. de Boer Karl Marx: Critique as Emancipatory Practice; R.Celikates Nietzsche's Genealogy as Performative Critique; J.I.Porter Psychoanalytic Critique and Beyond; E.Rottenberg The Interruption of Myth: Walter Benjamin's Concept of Critique; T.Lijster Adorno's Critique of Late Capitalism: Negative, Explanatory, and Practical; F.Freyenhagen Habermas' Social Theory: The Critical Power of Communicative Rationality; M.Cooke Prophecy and Parre?sia : Foucauldian Critique and the Political Role of Intellectuals; C.Hendricks Derrida: Echoes of the Forthcoming; O.Custer Negative versus Affirmative Critique: On Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière; R.Sonderegger Index