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Reconstituting Social Criticism

Political Morality in an Age of Scepticism

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Iain MacKenzie

    1. Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

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  2. Shane O’Neill

    1. Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Reconstituting Criticism Today

    1. Introduction: Reconstituting Criticism Today

      • Shane O’Neill
      Pages 1-15

  3. Normative Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Defending Universalism

      • Simon Caney
      Pages 19-33

    3. Digging up Marx

      • Keith Graham
      Pages 35-49

    4. Studying Equality

      • John Baker
      Pages 51-64

  4. Contesting Boundaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Deconstruction and Criticism

      • Aletta J. Norval
      Pages 67-81

    3. The Critical Force of Fictive Theory: Jameson, Foucault and Woolf

      • Jon Simons
      Pages 83-102

    4. Reconstituting the Subject of Political Discourse: from Lacan to Castoriadis

      • Caroline Williams
      Pages 103-120

  5. The Moral Basis of Criticism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Philosophy, Contingency and Social Criticism

      • Nicholas H. Smith
      Pages 123-136

    3. A Different Kind of Contract

      • Norman Geras
      Pages 137-149

  6. Social Conflict and the Possibility of Reconciliation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Liberalism and the Challenge of Pluralism

      • Richard Bellamy
      Pages 153-170

    3. Are Ethical Conflicts Irreconcilable?

      • Maeve Cooke
      Pages 171-189

    4. Two Conceptions of Cosmopolitan Justice

      • Thomas McCarthy
      Pages 191-214

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 215-217
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Iain MacKenzie, Shane O’Neill

About the editors

JOHN BAKER Department of Politics, University College, Dublin RICHARD BELLAMY Professor of Politics at the University of Reading SIMON CANEY Lecturer in Politics at the University of Newcastle MAEVE COOKE Department of German, University College, Dublin NORMAN GERAS Professor of Government at the University of Manchester KEITH GRAHAM Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Bristol THOMAS MCCARTHY Professor of Philosophy and John Shaffer Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University ALETTA J. NORVAL Director of the Programme in Ideology and Discourse at the University of Essex JON SIMONS Lecturer in the Postgraduate School of Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham NICHOLAS H. SMITH Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia CAROLINE WILLIAMS Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

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