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Introduction

Marx's famous complaint that philosophers only interpret the world without ever getting around to the real point of it all, which is, of course, "to change it," probably never changed a thing. In any case, it is certainly an old story. Activism has always been impatient with theory, the vita activa sneers at the monkish indolence of vita contemplative, and no one really does anything about the weather. Is interpretation therefore fruitless and criticism mere chatter? Every undergraduate humanities major has heard as much from rightfully worried parents: enjoy the Weltschmerz, but what are you going to do for a...