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Author:
O'Brien, John E.
Title:
Critical practice from Voltaire to Foucault, Eagleton and beyond : contested perspectives / by John E. O'Brien.
Publisher:
Brill,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xv, 503 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Critical theory.
Voltaire,--1694-1778--Political and social views.
Foucault, Michel,--1926-1984--Political and social views.
Eagleton, Terry,--1943---Political and social views.
Schiller, Friedrich,--1759-1805--Political and social views.
White, Hayden V.,--1928---Political and social views.
Baudrillard, Jean,--1929-2007--Political and social views.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Overview -- What is critical practice? -- Voltaire : setting the role of public intellectual -- Schiller : reform consciousness to change the world -- Foucault : the end of evasion -- Jean Baudrillard : critical practice as core extraction -- Eagleton : literary critic : literature or criticism? -- Hayden White : historic truth as story telling -- Liberation : project, method, object -- Appendix: technical note -- Bibliography -- Index.
Series:
Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 61
ISBN:
9004214275 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004214279 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)861210863
LCCN:
2013033846
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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