This book of tightly woven dialogues engages prominent thinkers in a discussion about the role of culture‎-broadly construed‎-in contemporary society and politics‎.‎ Faced with the conceptual inflation of the notion of ‎'‎culture‎,‎‎'‎ which now imposes itself as an indispensable issue in contemporary moral and political debates‎,‎ these dynamic exchanges seek to rethink culture and critique beyond the schematic models that have often predominated‎,‎ such as the opposition between ‎"‎mainstream multiculturalism‎"‎ and the ‎"‎clash of civilizations‎.‎‎"‎ Prefaced by an introduction relating current cultural debates to the critical theory tradition‎,‎ this book examines the politics of culture and the spirit of critique from three different vantage points‎.‎ To begin‎,‎ Gabriel Rockhill and Alfredo Gomez‎-Muller provide a stage‎-setting dialogue‎,‎ followed by discussions with two major representatives of contemporary critical theory‎:‎ Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser‎.‎ Working