The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics (New Critical Humanities)

__The Ends of Critique__ re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to a plurality of critical perspectives. The volume’s reflections move critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic, deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or those endebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the interdisciplinary research network __Terra Critica__. Cover Half Title Series page Title page Copyright page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Critique Methods, Institutions, Politics The Ends of Critique: Overview Notes Bibliography Part I: Visions of Critique Chapter 1: “After Humanism?”—Time and Transformation in Critical Thinking Critical Conundrum After Human(ism) Re-Turning Hope at the End of the World as “We” Know It? Notes Bibliography Chapter 2: The Most Difficult Task: On the Idea of an Impure Pure Nonviolence in Derrida The Logic of the Gift in Given Time The Impure Pure Gift: Counterfeit Money The Most Difficult Task On the Death Penalty Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: The Changeability of the World: Utopia and Critique * * Notes Bibliography Chapter 4: Seeking Intelligent Life in the Time of COVID-19, or, Thinking “Epicritically”: (For Stan Robinson) Whose Limits? This Strange Critical Entity New Logi(isti)cs of Critique Notes Bibliography Part II: Critical Reading Chapter 5: Suspicious Minds: Critique as Symptomatic Reading *** From Reading Symptoms to Uncritical Description Derrida and Wynter: From Rereading to Rewriting *** Notes Bibliography Chapter 6: The Ends of Critical Intimacy: Spivak, Fanon, and Appropriative Reading Refrain from Appropriation. Reading as Aesthetic Education *** Appropriative Reading: Spivak Reading Fanon Reading Hegel Thwarting Governing Fictions Notes Bibliography Chapter 7: Critical Vivisection: Transforming Ethical Sensibilities Vivisection, Literal and Metaphorical A Novel Experiment Engaging with Ethical Sensibility The Ends of Critique Bibliography Part III: Institutions and Technologies Chapter 8: Unwinding the Abstraction of Whiteness *** An Origin Story An Early Twentieth-Century American Cautionary Tale Worshipping “Dog” From “God” to “Dog” Notes Bibliography Chapter 9: How Not to Be Governed Like That by Our Digital Technologies *** “Like That and at That Cost” “To Be Governed” “By Our Digital Technologies” “Not” “How” Uncomfortable Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 10: Defective Institutions: or, Critique *** From Critical Act to Political Substance? A Brief for Falsification A Brief for Failures The Operator of Defection Notes Bibliography Index About the Contributors "The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to a plurality of critical perspectives. The volume's reflections move critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic, deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or those endebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the interdisciplinary research network Terra Critica"-- Provided by publisher Re-examining the stakes of critique in the twenty-first century, this book contends with the complex socio-political realities of a globalized world and the changing role that critique and the academy have to play