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A TIME FOR CRITIQUE KARTONIERT (TB)

In a world of political upheaval  rising inequality  catastrophic climate change  and
widespread doubt of even the most authoritative sources of information  is there a place for
critique? This book calls for a systematic reappraisal of critical thinking--its assumptions 
its practices  its genealogy  its predicament--following the principle that critique can only
start with self-critique. In A Time for Critique  Didier Fassin  Bernard E. Harcourt  and a
group of eminent political theorists  anthropologists  sociologists  philosophers  and literary
and legal scholars reflect on the multiplying contexts and forms of critical discourses and on
the social actors and social movements engaged in them. How can one maintain sufficient
distance from the eventful present without doing it an injustice? How can one address
contemporary issues without repudiating the intellectual legacies of the past? How can one
avoid the disconnection between theory and action? How can critique be both public and
collective? These provocative questions are addressed by revisiting the works of Foucault and
Arendt  Said and Césaire  Benjamin and Du Bois  but they are also given substance through
on-the-ground case studies that treat subaltern criticism in Palestine  emancipatory
mobilizations in Syria  the antitorture campaigns of Sri Lankan activists  and the abolitionism
of the African American critical resistance and undercommons movements in the United States.
Examining lucidly the present challenges of critique  A Time for Critique shows how its
theoretical reassessment and its emerging forms can illuminate the imaginative modalities to
rejuvenate critical praxis.

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