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Oct 15, 1993 · Interpretation and Social Criticism is clearly written and extremely relevant to contemporary debates, both in Europe and North America, on criticism, theory, and the role of intellectuals in the formation of social movements and the making of social change.
Interpretation and Social Criticism is a 1987 book about political philosophy by Michael Walzer.
- Joseph Raz
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What do social critics do? How do they goaboutdoing it? Where do the critic’s principles come from? How does he establish his distance from the people and institutions he criticizes? The argument sustained through the three lectures, that social criticism is best understood as critical interpretation, runs parallel to arguments made in recent
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Oct 15, 1993 · Walzer explains where critical principles come from, how much distance is “critical distance,” and what the historical practice of criticism has actually been like in the work of social philosophers such as Marx, Gramsci, Koestler, Lenin, Habermas, and Rawls.
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- Joseph Raz
- Michael Walzer
How do critics establish their distance from the people and institutions they criticize? Michael Walzer addresses these problems in succinct and engaging fashion, providing a philosophical...
Social criticism is stipulatively defined, in the second chapter, as a social activity: an outspoken critical "reflection-from-within" upon the conditions of collective life. Although it is said to require critical distance, social criticism is denied any prerequisite of radical detachment.
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Oct 15, 1993 · Where do their principles come from? How do critics establish their distance from the people and institutions they criticize? Michael Walzer addresses these problems in succinct and engaging fashion, providing a philosophical framework for understanding social criticism as a social practice.
