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A Critique of Liberal Cynicism - Peter Sloterdijk, Judith Butler, and Critical Liberalism (Hardcover)
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A Critique of Liberal Cynicism - Peter Sloterdijk, Judith Butler, and Critical Liberalism (Hardcover)
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Where does Extreme Liberal Cynicism--so common in academic and
popular culture--come from, and is it capable of solving the
problems it identifies? A Critique of Liberal Cynicism: Peter
Sloterdijk, Judith Butler, and Critical Liberalism identifies the
motivations and resources within liberal cynicism and their
potential for overcoming its pernicious extremes. Will Barnes
describes Extreme Liberal Cynicism as a product of mourning, guilt,
and the experience of powerlessness stemming from the trauma of
holding liberal investments in a world in which these investments
are vulnerable to ideological critique and seem to have failed.
Extreme Liberal Cynicism seeks invulnerability through disavowing
the efficacy of its constitutive ideals achieved via a reified
hopelessness that eclipses trauma, guilt, and disempowerment
leaving the cynic unhappy, alienated, hostile, obstinate,
delusional, and desperate; thus, it is a failing self-defense
mechanism. Barnes argues that although Extreme Liberal Cynicism is
rationally unjustifiable and intrinsically harmful, it also
contains the impetus for a reappropriation of its complex desires
and losses. This adjustment could compel the extreme cynic to
maintain a moderate critical liberal cynicism committed to
critiquing and reinvigorating its constitutive ideals of freedom,
equality, and justice, and thereby contribute positively to
progressive politics.
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