Thinking Critically – Thinking Contrapuntally: The Practice of Critique in a Global(izing) Context

    • Neufeld Mark 150
    • Presentation speakers
      • Mark Neufeld, Global Politics,Trent University, Canada


    Keynote Speech:

    Thinking Critically – Thinking Contrapuntally: The Practice of Critique in a Global(izing) Context

     
    Abstract:

    “Critical” is a common descriptor attached to theories, approaches, and intellectual interventions of all kinds. But what does it mean to theorize critically as we move into the 21st century? This paper will offer one possible response to that question through an engagement, structured in terms of the hermeneutic circle, with the work of several key thinkers – most centrally, Edward Said – who stand as exemplars of what it means to function as a critical intellectual, in both thought and practice, in the current context.