Gillian Rose : a good enough justice / Kate Schick
- Author
- Schick, Kate
- Published
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages).
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- Series
- Contents
- Speculative dialectics -- The broken middle -- Trauma, memory and the political -- Cosmopolitanism, difference and aporetic universalism -- Between tragedy and utopia.
- Summary
- Makes the case for the rediscovery of British philosopher Gillian Rose's unique but neglected voice In this book, Kate Schick presents the core themes of Rose's work and locates her ideas within central debates in contemporary social theory (trauma and memory, exclusion and difference, tragedy and messianic utopia), engaging with the works of Benjamin, Honig, ÅưiÅℓek and Butler. She shows how Rose's speculative perspective brings a different gaze to bear on debates, eschewing well-worn liberal, critical theoretic and post-structural positions. Gillian Rose draws on idiosyncratic readings of thinkers such as Hegel, Adorno and Kierkegaard to underpin her philosophy, negotiating the 'broken middle' between the particular and the universal. While of the left, she is sharply critical of much left-wing thought, insisting that it shirks the work of coming to know and of taking political risk in pursuit of a 'good enough justice'.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780748655588 (electronic bk.)
0748655581 (electronic bk.)
0748676678 (electronic bk.)
9780748676675 (electronic bk.)
1299105599
9781299105591
9780748655601
0748655603
074865559X (Amazon ebook)
9780748655595 (Amazon ebook)
9780748639847
0748639845
9780748655595 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-173) and index.
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