The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century, offering an unprecedented re-examination of critique under global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. It develops a different approach to critique than recent considerations of critique as post-critique or those indebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of democracy.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 01 March 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

The Ends of Critique: Re-examining the Stakes of Critique in the 21st Century re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century in view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to a plurality of critical perspectives. The volumes reflections move critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic, deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or those indebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the interdisciplinary research network Terra Critica.

The Ends of Critique: Re-examining the Stakes of Critique in the 21st Century

The Ends of Critique: Re-examining the Stakes of Critique in the 21st Century re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century in view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to a plurality of critical perspectives. The volumes reflections move critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic, deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or those indebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the interdisciplinary research network Terra Critica.

ISBN-13: 9781538160534