Description: Critical Theory at a Crossroads presents conversations with prominent theorists about the crises that have marked the past years and the use of the term "crisis" in political discourse. They offer their views on contemporary challenges and how we might address them, candidly discussing the alternatives that new social movements have offered.
Brief description: Stijn de Cauwer (PhD, Literary Studies, Leuven) is Researcher in the Department of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Leuven. He is the author of A Diagnosis of Modern Life: Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften as a Critical-Utopian Project (Peter Lang, 2014) and the editor of several special issues of journals, including "Immunity, Society and the Arts," Configurations (#25, 2017), "Georges Didi-Hubermann," Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (2018), and "Immunity and Modernity: Picturing Threat and Protection," Boundary 2: an International Journal of Literature and Culture. He has also published articles in a number of journals, including (in English) Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, Interiors: Design, Architecture and Culture, Studies in Social and Political Thought, and Meridian Critic. He is also the founder and director of IdeaLab: The Biopolitical Condition, a forum for research on contemporary theories about biopolitics.
Review Quotes: Good reading for graduate seminars in the humanities and social sciences.--Choice