Reconstituting Social Criticism de Shane O'Neill

Reconstituting Social Criticism: Political Morality in an Age of Scepticism

Shane O'Neill

Iain MacKenzie

In the context of a new global order where the logic of the market reigns virtually unopposed, there is a clear need for original thinking that might reinvigorate a progressive political project. This collection of essays brings together the work of a number of leading scholars who are concerned to construct a convincing basis for incisive criticism today. These contributors represent the most vibrant and influential of contemporary critical perspectives: egalitarian liberalism, socialism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics and critical theory.

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List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Reconstituting Criticism Today; S.O'Neill NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS Defending Universalism; S.Caney Digging Up Marx; K.Graham Studying Equality; J.Baker CONTESTING BOUNDARIES Deconstruction and Criticism; A.J.Norval The Critical Force of Fictive Theory: Jameson, Foucault and Woolf; J.Simons Reconstituting the Subject of Political Discourse: From Lacan to Castoriadis; C.Williams THE MORAL BASIS OF CRITICISM Philosophy, Contingency and Social Criticism; N.H.Smith A Different Kind of Contract; N.Geras SOCIAL CONFLICT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF RECONCILIATION Liberalism and the Challenge of Pluralism; R.Bellamy Are Ethical Conflicts Irreconcilable?; M.Cooke Two Conceptions of Cosmopolitan Justice; T.McCarthy Index

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JOHN BAKER Department of Politics, University College, DublinRICHARD BELLAMY Professor of Politics at the University of ReadingSIMON CANEY Lecturer in Politics at the University of NewcastleMAEVE COOKE Department of German, University College, DublinNORMAN GERAS Professor of Government at the University of ManchesterKEITH GRAHAM Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of BristolTHOMAS MCCARTHY Professor of Philosophy and John Shaffer Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern UniversityALETTA J. NORVAL Director of the Programme in Ideology and Discourse at the University of EssexJON SIMONS Lecturer in the Postgraduate School of Critical Theory at the University of NottinghamNICHOLAS H. SMITH Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, AustraliaCAROLINE WILLIAMS Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London