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Crisis Under Critique - How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations (Hardcover)
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Crisis Under Critique - How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory, 78
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The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture-a
moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our
political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis,
to the point that supposed abnormalities have been normalized. How
can the notion of crisis be rethought in order to take stock of-and
challenge-our understanding of the many predicaments in which we
find ourselves? Instead of diagnosing emergencies, Didier Fassin,
Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how
people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and
the response to critical situations. Contributors inquire into the
social production of crisis, evaluating a wide range of cases on
five continents through the lenses of philosophy, sociology,
anthropology, political science, history, and economics.
Considering social movements, intellectual engagements, affected
communities, and reflexive perspectives, the book foregrounds the
perspectives of those most closely involved, bringing out the
immediacy of crisis. Featuring analysis from below as well as
above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under
Critique is a singular intervention that utterly recasts one of
today's most crucial-yet most ambiguous-concepts.
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