Superweak
Thinking in the 21st Century
$34.39
- Paperback
230 pages
- Release Date
7 February 2026
Summary
We have become superheroes. Nothing can resist us anymore: not persons, ideas, facts, realities, or beings. We owe our superhuman strength to a tool we have taken up that submits everything to the scrutiny of our judgment: critique. After its first formulation at the end of the sixteenth century, the project of critique spread from one sphere to another until it became almost universal: we have all of us been transformed by our equal capacity to judge, approve, and reject. If modernity is def…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509566471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509566473 |
| Author: | Laurent de Sutter, Robert Hughes |
| Publisher: | Polity Press |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 230 |
| Release Date: | 7 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“Sutter’s pungent, bite-sized provocations are best described as a postcritical Minima Moralia: a spanner thrown into the machinery of suspicion and an essential reminder of what the critical spirit is unable to see.”
Rita Felski, University of Virginia
“Using the stealth capacities of hermeneutic distrust as his weapon of choice, de Sutter’s writing breaks into unrecovered areas of subtle teachings, shedding light on philosophemes gleaned from Aristotle to punk-led attitude, biojewelry, and the historical buildup of authority billed to the triumph of reason in its many intrusive morphs.”
Avital Ronell, New York University
Laurent de Sutter
Laurent de Sutter is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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