Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics

Preface vii Chapter One: Untimeliness and Punctuality: Critical Theory in Dark Times 1 Chapter Two: Political Idealization and Its Discontents 17 Chapter Three: Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy 37 Chapter Four: At the Edge: The Future of Political Theory 60 Chapter Five: Freedom's Silences 83 Chapter Six: Feminism Unbound: Revolution, Mourning, Politics 98 Chapter Seven: The Impossibility of Women's Studies 116 Notes 137 Index 155