Domination and Emancipation - Remaking Critique

This volume presents a translation of a debate between two major theorists: sociologist Luc Boltanski and political philosopher Nancy Fraser. The debate engages with recent developments in political philosophy and sociology, and with pressing contemporary social and political ...

List of contents

Note on Translations


Introduction
Daniel Benson

Part I: Dialogues
1 Domination and Emancipation: For a Revival of Social Critique
Luc Boltanski and Nancy Fraser
2 Domination and Emancipation in the Current Conjuncture
Philippe Corcuff and Gabriel Rockhill


Part II: Emancipatory Subjects
3 Emancipation, Political and Real
Asad Haider
4 On a Critical Realist Theory of Identity
Rosaura Sánchez


Part III: Counter-Histories
5 Critical and Revolutionary Theory: For the Reinvention of Critique in the Age of Ideological Realignment
Gabriel Rockhill
6 Like a Riot: The Politics of Forgetfulness, Relearning the South, and the Island of Dr. Moreau Françoise Vergès
Part IV: Critical Tensions
7 Emancipation, Domination, and Critical Theory in the Anthropocene
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
8 Renewing Critical Theory in an Ultra-Conservative Context: between the Social Sciences, Political Philosophy, and Emancipatory Engagement
Philippe Corcuff
9 Politics in Tensions. Counter-Currents for a Post-Critical Age
Yves Citton

Notes on Contributors

About the author

Luc Boltanski is a leading French sociologist and professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. Many of his works have been translated into English, including The New Spirit of Capitalism (2005), On Justification (2006), On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation (2011), Love and Justice as Competences (2012) and Mysteries and Conspiracies (2014).

Product details

• Authors: Luc Boltanski, Luc Fraser Boltanski, Boltanski Luc, Nancy Fraser, Fraser Nancy
• Assisted by: Daniel Benson (Editor), Benson Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2024
• EAN: 9781538199176
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-9917-6
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Reinventing Critical Theory
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Modern philosophy: since c 1800