Critical Theory in Times of Crisis

Book Review| March 01 2020 Critical Theory in Times of Crisis Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis, edited by de Cauwer, Stijn, New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, 256 pages, $35 (paperback), ISBN 9780231186797 Michiel Rys Michiel Rys Michiel Rys is a postdoctoral researcher for the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Leuven. He is currently working on a research project on the history and representation of precarity with a focus on German literature. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 138–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017373 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michiel Rys; Critical Theory in Times of Crisis. Cultural Politics 1 March 2020; 16 (1): 138–140. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017373 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsCultural Politics Search Advanced Search The inflationary use of the term crisis in public discourse and media to pinpoint particular events in the most divergent branches of society (finance and debt, economy, climate, migration, national and supranational political institutions, to name only a few of many examples) should make us suspicious. Critical Theory at a Crossroads deals with these crisis situations, as well as the manifold forms of resistance and theoretical analyses provoked by them. The book consists of eleven interviews with a well-considered sample of established thinkers across a variety of disciplines. Among the interviewees we find Rosi Braidotti, Jacques Rancière, Joseph Vogl, Wendy Brown, Antonio Negri, Tariq Ali, Saskia Sassen, Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela McRobbie, and Jean-Luc Nancy. The book concludes with a letter exchange between Zygmunt Bauman and Roberto Esposito on the latter’s theorem of immunity. In a thought-provoking and engaging introduction, Stijn de Cauwer, the editor... © 2020 Duke University Press2020 Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content

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