Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
by Wendy Brown
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Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual and political value of critique itself. It renders contemporary the ancient jurisprudential meaning of critique as krisis, in which a tear in the fabric of justice becomes the occasion of show more a public sifting or thoughtfulness, the development of criteria for judgment, and the inauguration of political renewal or restoration. Each essay probes a contemporary problem--the charge of being unpatriotic for dissenting from U.S. foreign policy, the erosion of liberal democracy by neoliberal political rationality, feminism's loss of a revolutionary horizon--and seeks to grasp the intellectual impasse the problem signals as well as the political incitement it may harbor. show lessTags
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Wendy Brown is Class of 1936 First Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches political theory. Her recent books include Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution (2015) and Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010).
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Philosophy, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 320.01 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political Science Philosophy and Theory
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- JA71 .B758 — Political Science Political science (General) Political science (General) Theory. Relations to other subjects
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