Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique

This book of tightly woven dialogues engages prominent thinkers in a discussion about the role of culture-broadly construed-in contemporary society and politics. Faced with the conceptual inflation of the notion of ôculture,ö which now imposes itself as an indispensable issue in contemporary moral and political debates, these dynamic exchanges seek to rethink culture and critique beyond the schematic models that have often predominated, such as the opposition between ômainstream multiculturalismö and the ôclash of civilizations.ö

Gabriel Rockhill is assistant professor of philosophy at Villanova University, program director at the Collge International de Philosophic, and the author, most notably, of Logique de l'histoire: Pour une analytique des pratiques philosophiques. Alfredo Gomez-Muller is professor of Latin American studies at the Franois-Rabelais University in Tours and the author of numerous books, including Sartre: De la nause l'engagement and Ethique, coexistence et sens.