Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Critique As Practice
6. 1. How Is Critique? 13
7. 2. Critique As A Political Practice Of Freedom 36
8. 3. Critique Without A Politics Of Hope? 52
9. 4. The Usefulness Of Uncertain Critique 71
10. 5. Human Rights Consciousness And Critique 91
11. 6. Critique As Subduction 114
12. 7. What’s Left Of The Real? 132
13. Part II: Critique In Practice
14. 8. Subaltern Critique And The History Of Palestine 153
15. 9. Critical Theory In A Minor Key To Take Stock Of The Syrian Revolution 174
16. 10. Pragmatic Critique Of Torture In Sri Lanka 193
17. 11. Dispossession, Reimagined From The 1690s 210
18. 12. Crisis, Critique, And Abolition 230
19. 13. Law, Critique, And The Undercommons 252
20. 14. Critical Praxis For The Twenty- First Century 271
21. Contributors 295
22. Index 297