Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

JUDITH BUTLER Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USAROBIN CELIKATES Associate Professor of political and social philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands MAEVE COOKE Professor and Head of the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland OLIVIA CUSTER teaches at Bard College in New York, USAFABIAN FREYENHAGEN Lecturer at the University of Essex, UKCHRISTINA HENDRICKS Senior Instructor in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, CanadaTHIJS LIJSTER PhD student in philosophy at the University of Groningen, The NetherlandsCOLIN MCQUILLAN Lecturer at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA JAMES I. PORTER teaches Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine, USAPHILIP ANDREW QUADRIO is based at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia ELIZABETH ROTTENBERG Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, USA ANDRÉ TOSEL Emeritus Professor of the Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France

• 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

'De Boer and Sonderegger have compiled an invaluable historical inventory of conceptions of critique from Spinoza to Rancière. Beginning with a riveting essay by Judith Butler, who recalls that critique is the condition for dissent, this volume provides Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Foucault, among others, with fresh and challenging philosophical profiles. All students of critique will want this volume on their bookshelf.' - Jay Bernstein, New School for Social Research, New York, USA'This is a uniquely rich and diverse volume which offers both historical reconstructions of (mostly) post-Kantian conceptions of critique and evaluative discussions of the nature and future of critique as a method. I very much recommend this book to anyone interested in questions of normativity and justification.' - Béatrice Han-Pile, University of Essex, UK