Time for Critique

In A Time for Critique, Didier Fassin, Bernard E. Harcourt, and a group of eminent political theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, 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.

About the author

Didier Fassin is the James Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. The author of several books, including most recently Life: A Critical User’s Manual, he was the first social scientist to receive the Nomis Distinguished Scholar Award.

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and professor of political science at Columbia University and a director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University, he is the author of several books, including most recently The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens.

Summary

In A Time for Critique, Didier Fassin, Bernard E. Harcourt, and a group of eminent political theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, 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.

Additional text

I hope that readers will be inspired even when not fully persuaded about the value of critique to wake them up from their dogmatic slumber and embrace it as a way of life and not only as part of the life of the mind.

Product details

• Assisted by: Bernard E. Harcourt (Editor), Professor Didier Fassin (Editor), Amy Allen (Editor), Didier Fassin (Editor), Fassin Didier (Editor)
• Authors: Amy Allen, Bernard E. Fassin Harcourt
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.08.2019
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780231191265
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19126-5
• Pages: 320
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory > 58; New Directions in Critical The > 58; New Directions in Critical Theory > 58; New Directions in Critical The > 58
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, philosophy; political science