Critical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique

by David Couzens Hoy

Book Overview

This book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussion of this topic. How can a body of thought that mistrusts universal principles explain the possibility of critical resistance? Without appeals to abstract norms, how can emancipatory resistance be distinguished from domination? Can there be a poststructuralist ethics? David Hoy explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262582635
• ISBN13: 9780262582636
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher