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What Is Critique? A Conversation with Eva Illouz
- Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences
- Duke University Press
- Volume 28, Number 1, June 2019
- pp. 167-179
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Abstract:
In this interview the Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz retraces her relationship to critical theory from the 1980s to the present. The conversation explores the reasons behind Illouz's initial reluctance to adopt a critical stance toward capitalism, her rediscovery of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment in the early 2000s, and her recent call for a postnormative critique.