Critical Resistance by David Couzens Hoy - ISBN: 9780262582636
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A leading authority on Continental philosophy examines the concept of critical resistance within recent poststructuralist social thought.

Critical Resistance

From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique

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    288 pages

  • Release Date

    12 August 2005

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Summary

This book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussion of this topic. How can a body of thought that mistrusts universal principles explain the possibility of critical resistance? Without appeals to abstract norms, how can emancipatory resistance be distinguished from domination? Can there be a poststructuralist ethics? David Hoy explores these crucial questions through lucid re…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262582636
ISBN-10:0262582635
Author:David Couzens Hoy
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:Bradford Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:12 August 2005
Weight:318g
Dimensions:203mm x 137mm x 14mm
Series:A Bradford Book
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Critics Review

’ Critical Resistance offers fresh consideration of persistently vexing questions posed by poststructuralist philosophy: How is it possible to do away with grounded norms and universal principles and at the same time offer a compelling theoretical critique of the existing order of things? How can thinking practices that call all normativity into question also generate possibilities for resistance to perceived domination or injustice? Indeed, how can such practices perceive domination or injustice at all? This is a book to learn from, to teach, and to admire.’ Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkele “Critical Resistance offers fresh consideration of persistently vexing questions posed by poststructuralist philosophy: How is it possible to do away with grounded norms and universal principles and at the same time offer a compelling theoretical critique of the existing order of things? How can thinking practices that call all normativity into question also generate possibilities for resistance to perceived domination or injustice? Indeed, how can such practices perceive domination or injustice at all? This is a book to learn from, to teach, and to admire.”–Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley

About The Author

David Couzens Hoy

David Couzens Hoy is Distinguished Professor of Philosphy Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Critical Resistance- From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique (MIT Press, 2004).

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