Critical Dialogues: Thinking Together in Turbulent Times

Description

In this engaging and original book, John Clarke is in conversation with twelve leading scholars about the collaborative and dialogical processes of critical thinking in the social sciences. The conversations range across many fields and explore the problems and possibilities of doing critical intellectual work in ways that are responsive to changing conditions. By emphasising the many voices in play, in conversation with, as well as against, others, Clarke challenges the individualising myth of the heroic intellectual. He underlines the value of thinking criticall, collabortively and dialogically. The book also provides access to a sound archive of the original conversations.

John Clarke is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University. His work stretches across cultural studies, anthropology and policy studies. Advising in Austerity

"John Clarke's career-long talent for enabling reflective critical debate is fully exemplified in these convivial exchanges with accomplished peers. Across the conversations, the complex politics of radicalism, ambivalence and `heteroglossia' is collectively illuminated and advanced." Gregor McLennan, University of Bristol "Ideas come iteratively: our ways of thinking are formed and developed in conversation with each other. This book shows how that process works, and why it works so well in talking to John Clarke." Richard Freeman, University of Edinburgh