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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 450–455.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Humeira Iqtidar © 2020 Humeira Iqtidar 2020 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Asad straddles two traditions: one deeply parochial and somewhat stagnant, and the other much more cosmopolitan and a source...
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Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 4. Onjango being held in “traditional style,” under a tree, in Curoca, Namibe, November 2020. Photo by Ruy Llera Blanes.
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 403–442.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in the Islamic tradition over the proper understanding of apparently contradictory representations of God in the Qurʾan. Finally, it takes up the question of what Wittgenstein called “the craving for generality,” and thus the part abstraction plays in the progressive thrust of our secular, capitalist form...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 December 2021
... histories of the modern world. This article thus moves on two fronts in order to meet the stated objectives of expanding the field of critical theory while tracking “untimely traditions” and the horizons they've drawn. It will offer a history of anticolonial practice that was simultaneously theorized within...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 73–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Gurminder K. Bhambra Abstract Theorists working within the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory have not been immune to calls to “decolonize” that have been circulating in and beyond the academic world. This article asks what it means to seek to decolonize a tradition of thought that has...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 496–501.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the Israeli academy. These conditions made the national student movement into a mirror of the traditional political parties in Israel, marked by the uncritical adoption of the traditional parties' positions. The student movement was administered by party power at all levels and was denied any organizational...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 46–65.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Lucila Szwarc; Tessa Wood Abstract This essay argues that abortion, as a practice and a political cause, challenges traditional and hegemonic health frameworks and contributes to the development of a feminist approach to health. The essay focuses on experiences and activism for legal abortion...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Bernard E. Harcourt Abstract Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht's short-lived project for a critical theory journal, Krise und Kritik , foundered in 1931 on the shoals of positivism. Since then, a series of anti-foundational challenges to traditional critical theory has fragmented the landscape...
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Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2018
... with their claim to cultivate traditional values and restore order? This paper reflects on the complex recent histories—of neoliberalism, of nihilism, and of what Marcuse termed “repressive desublimation”—that generate the force and legitimacy of this novel development in Euro-Atlantic political life. Licensed...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 401–402.
Published: 01 December 2020
... on a key debate within the Islamic tradition concerning the “rationality” of divine speech. The article is followed by five commentaries that take up and expand on different themes found in Asad's essay and developed elsewhere in his work. © 2020 Charles Hirschkind 2020 This is an open access article...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 359–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Adom Getachew; Karuna Mantena Abstract This essay surveys some recent attempts to decolonize political theory and engage with non-Western political thinkers and traditions, especially anticolonialism. The authors' concern is that these engagements remain too centered on Western political thought...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 29–47.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the present and the risks it poses to our cherished normative aims is itself dilated? The answer that this essay proposes is that we must think of courage in its relationship to kairos (timeliness). Using Arendt's writings on the pariah tradition, this essay suggests three vectors of timely courage...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the “superiority of the subjugated” with Hegel and explains its social-theoretical relevance by turning to Marx and Engels. This tradition of thought offers two explanations for the superiority of subjugated sociality, one that relies on a philosophy of history (the servant's way of existence anticipates a coming...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (2): 275–309.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and autonomy. That aspiration is not new; in parallax ways, both Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi strive for such a freedom and equality. The aspiration is also an implicit stake of the Subaltern Studies tradition, as is manifest in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's invocation of “love.” The other freedom...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (3): 464–492.
Published: 01 December 2023
... modern and nonmodern semiotic, grammatological, and aesthetic traditions, Guha reconceived time as a function of the limits and possibilities of human language and argued that common lives and subaltern subjects could not be accessed without admitting to the heterogenous temporal constitution—“time-knots...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (3): 618–631.
Published: 01 December 2022
... carried out around the world with varying degrees of support, as were sit-ins, marches, actions, and calls to stop the various productive and reproductive circuits in which women are involved on a daily basis. For feminists the call to strike entails a number of pressing problems, since traditional models...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 85–113.
Published: 01 April 2023
... ( nahda ) and the national liberation movements in the 1970s. These revisions create a continuity that is critical to understanding the relationship between critique and hope in the Arab intellectual tradition. naqd critique Arab socialist realism critical hope Arab visual art...
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Critical Times (2024) 7 (1): 153–181.
Published: 01 April 2024
... these aesthetic traditions depends on whether Adorno's aesthetics can be decoupled from the antiblack racism in the genealogy of Western aesthetics and whether Adorno's negative dialectics can be reconciled to the transformative force of art, as that force is as central in Black aesthetics as is the negative...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 443–449.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in “learning to live another form of life and to speak another kind of language.” 4 Asad is of course renowned for his critique of “the pseudoscientific notion of ‘fieldwork,’” 5 for his “general opinion” that “the rich historical tradition of anthropology is unduly narrowed if it is defined simply...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 234–240.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to curate their own aesthetics with “a bellicose yet festive corporality” (131). In fact, this central entanglement between mourning and festive corporality also breaks from more austere feminist traditions coming from the North. The focus on pleasure, rebellion, and desire places vulnerability at the core...
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