Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

JUDITH BUTLER Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA ROBIN CELIKATES Associate Professor of political and social philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands MAEVE COOKE Professor and Head of the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland OLIVIA CUSTER teaches at Bard College in New York, USA FABIAN FREYENHAGEN Lecturer at the University of Essex, UK CHRISTINA HENDRICKS Senior Instructor in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada THIJS LIJSTER PhD student in philosophy at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands COLIN MCQUILLAN Lecturer at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA JAMES I. PORTER teaches Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine, USA PHILIP ANDREW QUADRIO is based at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia ELIZABETH ROTTENBERG Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, USA ANDRE TOSEL Emeritus Professor of the Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France

Does philosophical critique have a future? What are its possibilities, limits and presuppositions? This collection by outstanding scholars from various traditions, responds to these questions by examining the forms of philosophical critique that have shaped continental thought from Spinoza and Kant to Marx, Foucault, Derrida and Rancière.Does philosophical critique have a future? What are its possibilities, limits and presuppositions? This collection by outstanding scholars from various traditions, responds to these questions by examining the forms of philosophical critique that have shaped continental thought from Spinoza and Kant to Marx, Foucault, Derrida and Rancière.