{"product_id":"the-resources-of-critique-9780745631615","title":"The Resources of Critique","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial criticism has enjoyed a renaissance in the past few years. The anti-globalization protests at Seattle and Genoa and the great marches against the war in Iraq have put contestation of capitalism and imperialism back on the political and intellectual agenda.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharp, lucid and wide-ranging, \u003ci\u003eThe Resources of Critique\u003c\/i\u003e subjects modern political theory to the test of a robust materialism, and in doing so constitutes a vital contribution to such a theory in its own right.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerry Eagleton, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Manchester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Four Kinds of Impasse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Modernity and its Promises: Habermas and Bidet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Between sociological suspicion and the rule of law: Jürgen Habermas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 With and against Marx and Rawls: Jacques Bidet\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Between Relativism and Universalism: French Critical Sociology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Capitalism and its critiques: Boltanski and Chiapello\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 The dialectic of universal and particular: Pierre Bourdieu\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Touching the Void: Badiou and Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 The exception is the norm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Miracles do happen: the ontology of Alain Badiou\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Unreal: Slavoj Žižek and the proletariat\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Generosity of Being: Antonio Negri\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 All is grace\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Negri's Grundrisse: revolutionary subjectivity versus Marxist 'objectivism'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 The refusal of transcendence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Three Dimensions of Progress\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. A Critical Realist Ontology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 The story so far\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Dimensions of realism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Structure and Contradiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Realism about structures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 The primacy of contradiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 A dialectic of nature?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Justice and Universality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 From fact to value\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Equality and well-being\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Why equality matters\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404364718423,"sku":"9780745631615","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-resources-of-critique-9780745631615","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}