A Time for Critique

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

A Time for Critique

Edited by: Bernard E. Harcourt and Didier Fassin

Volume 58 in the series New Directions in Critical Theory

https://doi.org/10.7312/harc19126

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Harcourt Bernard E. :

Bernard Harcourt (PhD, Political Science, Harvard; JD, Harvard Law School) is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. He is the author of Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (Harvard, 2015), The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard, 2011), Against Prediction: Punishing and Policing in an Actuarial Age (Chicago, 2007), Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy (Chicago, 2005), and Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken-Window Policing (Harvard, 2001); the coauthor (with W.J.T. Mitchell and Michael Taussig) of Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience (Chicago, 2013); and the editor of Foucault: La societe punitive (Gallimard, 2014), Theories et institutions penales (Gallimard, 2015), and Surveiller et punir (Gallimard, 2015).Fassin Didier :

Didier Fassin (MD, University of Paris; PhD, Social Sciences, EHESS; Habilitation, Public Health, University of Paris; Habilitation, Social Sciences, EHESS) is the James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute foe Advanced Study and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of When Bodies Remember: Politics and Experience of AIDS in South Africa (California, 2007), Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present (California, 2011), Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing (Polity, 2013), Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (Polity, 2016), and Life: A Critical User's Manual (Polity, forthcoming) and the coauthor of (with R. Rechtman) The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (Princeton, 2009), (with Y. Bouagga) At the Heart of the State: The Moral World of Institutions (Pluto, 2015), and (with M. Lambek, V. Das, and W. Keane) Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives (Hau, 2015). A former vice president of Medecins Sans Frontieres, he is currently president of the French Medical Committee for Exiles. He was awarded a 2o18 Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award from the NOMIS Foundation.Allen Amy :

Amy Allen (PhD, Philosophy, Northwestern) is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and head of the Philosophy Department at the Pennsylvania State University. Her publications include The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia, 2016) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (Columbia, 2007). She is also the editor of the Columbia series New Directions in Critical Theory. She specializes in critical social theory, feminist theory, and 20th-century continental philosophy.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 sixteen books, including most recently Life: A Critical User’s Manual, he was awarded the Gold Medal in anthropology at the Swedish Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences and 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. The founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University, he is author of several books, including most recently The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens.

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Penelope Deutscher, author of Foucault’s Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason:
This is a rich collection of essays, offering readers the specific tools needed for further development in critical theory.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Didier Fassin and Bernard E. Harcourt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Critique As Practice
1. How Is Critique? Didier Fassin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Critique As A Political Practice Of Freedom Linda M. G. Zerilli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. Critique Without A Politics Of Hope? Ayşe Parla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. The Usefulness Of Uncertain Critique Peter Redfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5. Human Rights Consciousness And Critique Karen Engle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6. Critique As Subduction Massimiliano Tomba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
7. What’s Left Of The Real? Vanja Hamzić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Part II: Critique In Practice
8. Subaltern Critique And The History Of Palestine Lori Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
9. Critical Theory In A Minor Key To Take Stock Of The Syrian Revolution Fadi A. Bardawil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
10. Pragmatic Critique Of Torture In Sri Lanka Nick Cheesman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11. Dispossession, Reimagined From The 1690s David Kazanjian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
12. Crisis, Critique, And Abolition Andrew Dilts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
13. Law, Critique, And The Undercommons Allegra M. Mcleod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
14. Critical Praxis For The Twenty- First Century Bernard E. Harcourt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: General/trade;

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Published: September 23, 2019
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