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Critique Today Social and Critical Theory A Critical Horizons Book Series Editorial Board JEAN-PHILIPPE DERANTY, JOHN HEWITT, DANIELLE PETHERBRIDGE, JOHN RUNDELL, JEREMY SMITH, ROBERT SINNERBRINK International Advisory Board WILLIAM CONNOLLY, MANFRED FRANK, LEELA GANDHI, AGNES HELLER, DICK HOWARD, MARTIN JAY, RICHARD KEARNEY, PAUL PATTON, MICHEL WIEVIORKA VOLUME 3 Critical Today edited by Robert Sinnerbrink, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Nicholas H. Smith, Peter Schmiedgen BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2006 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Social and Critical Theory – A Critical Horizons Book Series provides a forum for the critical analysis of issues and debates within critical and social theories and the traditions through which these concerns are often voiced. The series is committed to publishing works that offer critical and insightful analyses of contemporary societies, as well as exploring the many dimensions of the human condition through which these critiques can be made. Social and Critical Theory publishes works that stimulate new horizons of critical thought by actively promoting debate across established boundaries. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data Critique today / [edited by] Robert Sinnerbrink . . . [et al.]. p. cm. — (Social and critical theory, ISSN 1572-459X ; v. 3) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 90-04-14911-2 (alk. paper) 1. Sociology — Philosophy. 2. Critical theory. 3. Poststructuralism. 4. Social history — Philosophy. HM585.C76 2005 301.01 22 2005058134 ISSN 1572-459X ISBN 90 04 14911 2 © Copyright 2006 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill Academic Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS Contents Chapter 1 Robert Sinnerbrink, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Nicholas Smith Critique, Hope, Power: Challenges of Contemporary Critical Theory 1 Chapter 2 Genevieve Lloyd Providence Lost: ‘September 11’ and the History of Evil 23 Chapter 3 Nicholas H. Smith Hope and Critical Theory 45 Chapter 4 Craig Browne Hope, Critique, and Utopia 63 Chapter 5 John Grumley Hegel, Habermas, and the Spirit of Critical Theory 87 Chapter 6 Pauline Johnson Habermas: A Reasonable Utopian? 101 Chapter 7 Shane O’Neill Critical Theory, Democratic Justice and Globalisation 119 Chapter 8 Emmanuel Renault Radical Democracy and an Abolitionist Concept of Justice. A Critique of Habermas’ Theory of Justice 137 vi • Contents Chapter 9 Jean-Philippe Deranty The Loss of Nature in Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy. Rereading Mead with Merleau-Ponty 153 Chapter 10 Paul Redding Pierre Bourdieu: From Neo-Kantian to Hegelian Critical Social Theory 183 Chapter 11 Simon Lumsden Reason and the Restlessness of the Speculative: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Reading of Hegel 205 Chapter 12 Peter Schmiedgen Polytheism, Monotheism and Public Space: Between Levinas and Arendt 225 Chapter 13 Robert Sinnerbrink From Machenschaft to Biopolitics: A Genealogical Critique of Biopower 239 Chapter 14 Paul Patton Foucault, Critique and Rights