Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics

by Wendy Brown

Book Overview

Edgework 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. Edgework 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691123616
• ISBN13: 9780691123615
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"