{"product_id":"edgework-critical-essays-on-knowledge-and-politics-paperback","title":"Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWendy Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdgework\u003c\/i\u003e brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9\/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. \u003ci\u003eEdgework\u003c\/i\u003e is also concerned with the intellectual and political value of critique itself. It renders contemporary the ancient jurisprudential meaning of critique as krisis, in which a tear in the fabric of justice becomes the occasion of a public sifting or thoughtfulness, the development of criteria for judgment, and the inauguration of political renewal or restoration. Each essay probes a contemporary problem--the charge of being unpatriotic for dissenting from U.S. foreign policy, the erosion of liberal democracy by neoliberal political rationality, feminism's loss of a revolutionary horizon--and seeks to grasp the intellectual impasse the problem signals as well as the political incitement it may harbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Attentive to the paradoxes and fragilities of contemporary democratic life, Wendy Brown's \u003ci\u003eEdgework\u003c\/i\u003e traverses democratic and feminist theory to deepen our appreciation of love in a time of hostility, equality in a time of difference, and action in a time of felt paralysis. Timely yet not simply 'relevant, ' \u003ci\u003eEdgework\u003c\/i\u003e manifests throughout that quality that Hannah Arendt admired and named 'care for the world.'\"\u003cb\u003e--Bonnie Honig, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University; Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation; author of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy and the Foreigner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is no one who occupies the place Brown occupies, who thinks as she thinks, or who writes with the same startling combination of bravery and moderation. There is no one who has such an acute eye for the structural perversities of American politics. There is no one who can so easily break the surface of political controversies and local scholarly debates, and dive into the profound questions below and behind them.\"\u003cb\u003e--Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, author of \u003ci\u003eLeo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePolitics Out of History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStates of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (both Princeton).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9.12 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47452256272562,"sku":"9780691123615","price":94.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/f34224cec8d4387487248850c2805ec5.webp?v=1778811915","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/edgework-critical-essays-on-knowledge-and-politics-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}