In the Spirit of Critique - Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Andrew J. Douglas is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Morehouse College. Klappentext Offers a new perspective on the political significance of the Hegelian dialectical legacy. Focusing on the critical postures of Hegel, Marx, and a series of twentieth-century intellectuals, including Sartre, Adorno, and C. L. R. James, this book explores what dialectical thinking entails and how such thinking might speak to the lived realities of the contemporary political moment. What is revealed is not a formal method or a grand philosophical system, but rather a reflective energy or disposition-a dialectical spirit of critique -that draws normative sustenance from an emancipatory moral vision but that remains attuned principally to conflict and tension, and to the tragic uncertainties of political life. In light of the unique challenges of the late-modern age, as theorists and citizens struggle to sustain an active and coherent critical agenda, In the Spirit of Critique invites serious reconsideration of a rich and elusive intellectual tradition.

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Andrew J. Douglas is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Morehouse College.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew J Douglas, Andrew J. Douglas
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2013
• EAN: 9781438448411
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-4841-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Suny Contemporary Continental
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Political science and theory, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -