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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
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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
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Chapter 9 Jean-Philippe Deranty The Loss of Nature in Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy. Rereading Mead with Merleau-Ponty
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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