1st Edition

The Spectacle of Critique From Philosophy to Cacophony

By Tom Boland Copyright 2019
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation and denunciation around all political issues. The technique of unmasking ‘power’ or ‘hegemony’ or ‘ideology’ has now been adopted across the political spectrum, where critical discourses are routinely used to suggest that anything and everything is... Read more

Acknowledgements

1. The Tragedy of Critique

2. The sound and the fury: The insights and limits of the critique of critique.

3. The Experience of Critique: Inside Permanent Liminality

4. Critique is History? Understanding a tradition of tradition-breaking

5. Unthinking Critical Thinking: The Reduction of Philosophy to Negative Logic

6. The Cacophony of Critique: Populist Radicals and Hegemonic Dissent

7. Asocial media: An auto-ethnography of on-line critiques

8. Towards acritical theory

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Tom Boland is Lecturer in Sociology at Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. His research focuses on critique, literature and unemployment. He is the author of Critique as a Modern Social Phenomenon and co-author of The Sociology of Unemployment.