In a world of political upheaval, rising inequality, catastrophic
climate change, and widespread doubt of even the most authoritative
sources of information, is there a place for critique? This book
calls for a systematic reappraisal of critical thinking-its
assumptions, its practices, its genealogy, its
predicament-following the principle that critique can only start
with self-critique. In A Time for Critique, Didier Fassin, Bernard
E. Harcourt, and a group of eminent political theorists,
anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, and literary and legal
scholars reflect on the multiplying contexts and forms of critical
discourse and on the social actors and social movements engaged in
them. How can one maintain sufficient distance from the eventful
present without doing it an injustice? How can one address
contemporary issues without repudiating the intellectual legacies
of the past? How can one avoid the disconnection between theory and
action? How can critique be both public and collective? These
provocative questions are addressed by revisiting the works of
Foucault and Arendt, Said and Cesaire, Benjamin and Du Bois, but
they are also given substance through on-the-ground case studies
that treat subaltern criticism in Palestine, emancipatory
mobilizations in Syria, the antitorture campaigns of Sri Lankan
activists, and the abolitionism of the African American critical
resistance and undercommons movements in the United States.
Examining lucidly the present challenges of critique, A Time for
Critique shows how its theoretical reassessment and its emerging
forms can illuminate the imaginative modalities to rejuvenate
critical praxis.
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