The Resources of Critique

Abstract

* Introduction * Part I: Four Kinds of Impasse *1. Modernity and its Promises: Habermas and Bidet *1.1 Between sociological suspicion and the rule of law: * Jurgen Habermas *1.2 With and against Marx and Rawls: Jacques Bidet *2. Between Relativism and Universalism: French * Critical Sociology *2.1 Capitalism and its critiques: Boltanski and Chiapello *2.2 The dialectic of universal and particular: Pierre Bourdieu *3. Touching the Void: Badiou and i ek *3.1 The exception is the norm *3.2 Miracles do happen: the ontology of Alain Badiou *3.3 Unreal: Slavoj i ek and the proletariat *4. The Generosity of Being: Antonio Negri *4.1 All is grace *4.2 Negri's Grundrisse: revolutionary subjectivity versus * Marxist 'objectivism' *4.3 The refusal of transcendence * Part II: Three Dimensions of Progress *5. A Critical Realist Ontology *5.1 The story so far *5.2 Dimensions of realism *6. Structure and Contradiction *6.1 Realism about structures *6.2 The primacy of contradiction *6.3 A dialectic of nature? *7. Justice and Universality *7.1 From fact to value *7.2 Equality and well-being *7.3 Why equality matters *8. Conclusion

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