Self-Critical Theory
Discursive Strategies in an Era of Real Universality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4270743 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Mattessich (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 301-320 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.0.0025 |
| OpenAlex | W2038357791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This essay looks at the figure of the universal, or a universalizable substrate, in the work of four contemporary theorists (Cornell, Butler, Badiou, Rancière). It argues that this figure, understood as a "living" universality, implies a necessary implication of the writer and reader in the "abstract" rationalities of today's global system. The first is grasped uniquely in the internalized risk of the latter, taken on as one's own and according to a performative logic of the subject. "Self-Critical Theory" analyzes, in the differences between cultural and radical politics, and between social and philosophical criticism, various registers of this logic, suggesting a common ground from which new possibilities for critique and resistance can arise
Art · Critical theory · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Universality (dynamical systems) · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |