Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics - Hardcover

Rockhill, Gabriel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474405355 ISBN 13: 9781474405355

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2016

Synopsis

With a critical eye, Gabriel Rockhill guides you through complex debates in history, politics and aesthetics, giving you an overview of key issues and central figures, including Foucault, Derrida, Castoriadis, Badiou and Ranciére.

About this title

About the Author:

Gabriel Rockhill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, Directeur de programme at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, and Founder and Director of the Critical Theory Workshop at the Université Paris Descartes.

He is the author of Radical History and the Politics of Art (Columbia University Press, 2014) andLogique de l'histoire: Pour une analytique des pratiques philosophiques (Editions Hermann, 2010). He co-edited and co-authored, with Alfredo Gomez-Muller,Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique: Dialogues (Columbia University Press, 2011), which has also been published in French and in Spanish. He co-edited and contributed toJacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2009) andTechnologies de contrôle dans la mondialisation: Enjeux politiques, éthiques etesthétiques (Editions Kimé, 2009). He also edited and translated, with John V. Garner, Cornelius Castoriadis'Postscript on Insignificance (Continuum Books, 2011), as well as Jacques Rancière'sThe Politics of Aesthetics (Continuum Books, 2004).

Review:

"These timely interventions challenge us to rethink the role and influence of scholarly discourse and critique. Gabriel Rockhill has developed a highly original, "conjunctural" approach, which consists in reading the works of the French cultural critics and philosophers that are at the core of his expertise, according to a judgment of relevance and urgency that is part of our own historicity as critics and academics. These sharp readings of Ranciere, Derrida, Foucault and Badiou are therefore part of a welcome call to arms to revitalize and politicize Anglo-American cultural scholarship." --Giuseppina Mecchia, University of Pittsburgh

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About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1474405355
• ISBN 13: 9781474405355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296