Crisis
A Critique
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2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-58886-8 (ISBN)
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A philosophical critique and exploration of the ubiquitous notion of 'crisis' in politics, culture and beyond
Crises abound.
The ‘end of history’ in the form of the triumph of liberalism has given way to a proliferation of crises internal to liberal, and especially neoliberal democracies: our economies and ecosystems, democracies, social and labour relations, constitutions, cultures, identities, and bodies are subjected to repeated and increasingly severe shocks.
Unsurprisingly, the vocabulary of crisis is ubiquitous. Ours, we are told, is an age of chronic, multiple, and mutually reinforcing cataclysms. But what exactly do we mean when we speak of crisis? Deceptively simple, the term has become a repository for a mass of fears, hopes and assumptions, bound up with the very institutions and techniques of government it so often claims to address. Overused and emptied out, it leads to either indecision and paralysis, or, at the other extreme, its cynical instrumentalization. To counter this, we need a philosophy, specifically a critique, of crisis.
Crisis: A Critique presents crisis as a construction through which we understand, experience and order the world; as a discursive event, producing a range of effects. Drawing on a range of examples (from economic crises to social uprisings, pandemics, genocides, and ecological devastation) and discourses (from ancient medicine to legal theory, political economy, philosophy, the earth sciences, and eco-criticism), this ambitious work of conceptual archaeology and typology engages with a range of authors who have questioned the nature of the connection between crisis and critique. If our time “out of joint” presents a crisis of critique itself, Miguel de Beistegui takes a vital step towards re-calibrating our language and thought for an age of seemingly unrelenting catastrophe.
Crises abound.
The ‘end of history’ in the form of the triumph of liberalism has given way to a proliferation of crises internal to liberal, and especially neoliberal democracies: our economies and ecosystems, democracies, social and labour relations, constitutions, cultures, identities, and bodies are subjected to repeated and increasingly severe shocks.
Unsurprisingly, the vocabulary of crisis is ubiquitous. Ours, we are told, is an age of chronic, multiple, and mutually reinforcing cataclysms. But what exactly do we mean when we speak of crisis? Deceptively simple, the term has become a repository for a mass of fears, hopes and assumptions, bound up with the very institutions and techniques of government it so often claims to address. Overused and emptied out, it leads to either indecision and paralysis, or, at the other extreme, its cynical instrumentalization. To counter this, we need a philosophy, specifically a critique, of crisis.
Crisis: A Critique presents crisis as a construction through which we understand, experience and order the world; as a discursive event, producing a range of effects. Drawing on a range of examples (from economic crises to social uprisings, pandemics, genocides, and ecological devastation) and discourses (from ancient medicine to legal theory, political economy, philosophy, the earth sciences, and eco-criticism), this ambitious work of conceptual archaeology and typology engages with a range of authors who have questioned the nature of the connection between crisis and critique. If our time “out of joint” presents a crisis of critique itself, Miguel de Beistegui takes a vital step towards re-calibrating our language and thought for an age of seemingly unrelenting catastrophe.
Miguel de Beistegui is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK and ICREA Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. His previous titles include: The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of Liberalism (2018), Proust as Philosopher: The Art of Metaphor (2012), Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor (2012), and Immanence: Deleuze and Philosophy (2010).
Introduction
1. Crisis: A Brief Critical History
2. Crises of Exception
3. Crises of Contradiction
4. Deconstructing Crisis?
5. Crises of Extinction, or Gaia in Peril
Conclusion
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 400 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-58886-5 / 1350588865 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-58886-8 / 9781350588868 |
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