Idea of Pure Critique

Idea of Pure Critique

by Iain MacKenzie
Idea of Pure Critique

Idea of Pure Critique

by Iain MacKenzie

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Overview

What is required of the idea of critique if it is to overcome indifference? This question addresses core themes in modern, post-Kantian and European philosophy, challenging theory's resignation in the face of contemporary political and economic formations. If indifference is to be overcome, critique must be demarcated in its purity, as an idea of critique in and of itself. For the idea of critique to become pure we must view critique as the construction of difference-only pure critique, as the construction of difference, can overcome our current age of indifference.

The Idea of Pure Critique will appeal to students of Kant as well as to the many interested in Deleuze and Guattari's contribution to philosophies of difference. More fundamentally, the book presents a series of political and philosophical challenges to the apathy that pervades modern forms of life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826468079
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/01/2004
Series: Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Iain MacKenzie is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Kent, UK. His previous publications include Political Concepts: A Reader and Guide (Edinburgh UP, 2005) and The Idea of Pure Critique (Continuum, 2004).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsviii
Prefacex
Introductionxviii
Chapter 1Kant and the Critique of Indifference1
Indifference and the Idea of Critique1
Critique, Totality and Immanence11
The Return of Indifference14
Chapter 2Philosophy as Pure Critique21
Introduction21
Partial Criticism, Total Critique and Pure Critique22
Philosophy as Constructivism28
Philosophy as Pure Critique36
Conclusion55
Chapter 3Four Problems with Pure Critique57
Introduction57
Problem 1The Problem with Ideas57
Problem 2The Problem with Creators and Mediators65
Problem 3The Problem of Immanence73
Problem 4The Problem of Difference79
Conclusion84
Conclusion: The Idea of Pure Critique89
Afterword97
Notes98
Index112
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