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Crisis Under Critique
How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations
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2022
About this book
Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a singular intervention.
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Didier Fassin is the James Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, a director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and former chair in public health at the Collège de France. He is coeditor of A Time for Critique (Columbia, 2019), among many other books.
Axel Honneth is Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and was formerly professor of social philosophy at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, where he also was the director of the Institute for Social Research. He is the author of numerous books, including Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (Columbia, 2014).
Axel Honneth is Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and was formerly professor of social philosophy at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, where he also was the director of the Institute for Social Research. He is the author of numerous books, including Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (Columbia, 2014).
Reviews
David Owen, author of What Do We Owe to Refugees?:
Rich in originality, this collection revisits the classic tropes of critique and crisis, but reorients our relationship to them. In taking the apprehension of crisis and the generation of critique as a topic to be explored, it opens up valuable new horizons of inquiry.
Rich in originality, this collection revisits the classic tropes of critique and crisis, but reorients our relationship to them. In taking the apprehension of crisis and the generation of critique as a topic to be explored, it opens up valuable new horizons of inquiry.
Anne Norton, author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire:
Neither crisis nor critique can be treated wholly theoretically, abstracted from particular political and economic conditions. The approach of this book, with its highly structured, formal-intellectual organization and its insistent attention to grounded material experience, is thus admirably suited to its aims. There is constant attention to both the theoretical and the empirical. That rich specificity makes each chapter a pleasure to read, for it enables each author to capture the immediacy of crisis and the purpose that animates critique.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The Heuristic of Crises: Reclaiming Critical Voices
1 - PART ONE. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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1. Capitalism Contested: Britain in the Aftermath of World War I
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2. Striking a Rock with Eggs: Resistance and Repression After Tiananmen
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3. Undoing the Rule of Market Laws: Social Critique and the Making of Normative Futures
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4. “Layoffs Are Murder, but They Are Also Everyday Life”: A Critique of Labor and Living in the Era of Ghost Capital
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5. Remaking the Demos “from Below”? Critical Theory, Migrant Struggles, and Epistemic Resistance
97 - PART TWO. INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENTS
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6. Peace, or the Moral Economy of War: Between W. E. B. Du Bois and Sayyid Quṭb
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7. Personal Pronouns and Political Protest: Henry David Thoreau and Ta-Nehisi Coates as Critics in Times of Crisis
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8. Becoming Anticolonial in Northern Namibia, 1950–1954: The Emergence of Both Crisis and Critique from Everyday Interpretations
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9. How Do Technocrats Address Crises? From Structural to Humanitarian Approaches to Crises in Latin American Developmentalism
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10. Against Crisis: Violence and Continuity in Manus Island Prison
211 - PART THREE. AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
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11. Love Trumps Hate: Community Caretaking in an Era of Mass Deportation
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12. Helping Refugees in Rural Germany: Ambivalences of Compassion
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13. Toward a Theory of Climate Praxis: Confronting Climate Change in a World of Struggle
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14. The Discovery of Contamination: Forever Chemicals and the Temporality of Critique
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15. Democracy Without Demos: The Disappearance of the Working Class and the Rise of Abstention in French Political Life
310 - PART FOUR. REFLEXIVE PERSPECTIVES
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16. New Technologies and the Moral Economy of White Nationalism
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17. “The Only Way Out Is Through”: Anthropology as Critical Praxis in Times of Crisis
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18. Social Movements and Social Theory
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19. The Invisible Rebellion: Working People Under the New Capitalist Economy
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20. Conspiracy Theories as Ambiguous Critique of Crisis
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Contributors
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Index
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9780231555487
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Keywords for this book
critical theory; politics; unrest; protest; capitalism; philosophy; sociology; anthropology; political science; history; economics
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
