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Author |
: Saul Newman |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0739102400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780739102404 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Bakunin to Lacan by : Saul Newman
In its comparison of anarchist and poststructuralist thought, From Bakunin to Lacan contends that the most pressing political problem we face today is the proliferation and intensification of power. Saul Newman targets the tendency of radical political theories and movements to reaffirm power and authority, in different guises, in their very attempt to overcome it. In his examination of thinkers such as Bakunin, Lacan, Stirner, and Foucault Newman explores important epistemological, ontological, and political questions: Is the essential human subject the point of departure from which power and authority can be opposed? Or, is the humanist subject itself a site of domination that must be unmasked? As it deftly charts this debate's paths of emergence in political thought, the book illustrates how the question of essential identities defines and re-defines the limits and possibilities of radical politics today.
Author |
: Saul Newman |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2010-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748634972 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748634975 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Politics of Postanarchism by : Saul Newman
What is the relevance of anarchist thought for politics and political theory today? While many have dismissed anarchism in the past, Saul Newman contends that anarchism's heretical critique of authority, and its insistence on full equality and liberty, places it at the forefront of the radical political imagination today. With the unprecedented expansion of state power in the name of security, the current 'crisis of capitalism' and the terminal decline of Marxist and social democratic projects, it is time to reconsider anarchism as a form of politics. This book seeks to renew anarchist thought through the concept of postanarchism.
Author |
: John Lechte |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2013-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748677726 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748677720 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights by : John Lechte
Human rights are in crisis today. Everywhere one looks, there is violence, deprivation, and oppression, which human rights norms seem powerless to prevent. This book investigates the roots of the current crisis through the thought of Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben. Human rights theory and practice must come to grips with key problems identified by Agamben "e; the violence of the sovereign state of exception and the reduction of humanity to 'bare' life. Any renewal of human rights today must involve breaking decisively with the traditional coordinates of Western political thought and instead affirm a new understanding of life and political action.
Author |
: Duane Rousselle |
Publisher |
: Pluto Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0745330878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745330877 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Post-Anarchism by : Duane Rousselle
Post-anarchism has been of considerable importance in the discussions of radical intellectuals across the globe in the last decade. In its most popular form, it demonstrates a desire to blend the most promising aspects of traditional anarchist theory with developments in post-structuralist and post-modernist thought. Post-Anarchism: A Reader includes the most comprehensive collection of essays about this emergent body of thought, making it an essential and accessible resource for academics, intellectuals, activists and anarchists interested in radical philosophy. Many of the chapters have been formative to the development of a distinctly "post-anarchist" approach to politics, aesthetics, and philosophy. Others respond to the so-called "post-anarchist turn" with caution and skepticism. The book also includes original contributions from several of today's "post-anarchists," inviting further debate and new ways of conceiving post-anarchism across a number of disciplines.
Author |
: Duane Rousselle |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2018-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350003576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350003573 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lacanian Realism by : Duane Rousselle
Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2008) “opened up a new path in the history of philosophy.” And so, whether you agree or disagree with the speculative realism movement, it has to be addressed. Lacanian Realism does just that. This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the ground up: first, by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian category of the real; second, by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan's concept of the real, and by positioning this against the more reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Saul Newman, Todd May, Joan Copjec, Jacques Rancière, and others, and; third, by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real. Lacanian Realism is an imaginative and timely exploration of the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary continental philosophy.
Author |
: Kinna Ruth Kinna |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2016-01-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474410410 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474410413 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kropotkin by : Kinna Ruth Kinna
This book provides a re-assessment of Kropotkin's political thought and suggests that the 'classical' tradition which has provided a lens for the discussion of his work has had a distorting effect on the interpretation of his ideas. By setting the analysis of his thought in a number of key historical contexts, Ruth Kinna reveals the enduring significance of his political thought and questions the usefulness of those approaches to the history of ideas that map historical changes to philosophical and theoretical shifts. One of the key arguments of the book is that Kropotkin contributed to the elaboration of an anarchist ideology, which has been badly misunderstood and which today is too often dismissed as outdated. This sympathetic but critical analysis corrects some popular myths about Kropotkin's thought, highlights the important and unique contribution he made to the history of socialist ideas and sheds new light on the nature of anarchist ideology.
Author |
: Saul Newman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2007-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134219421 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134219423 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought by : Saul Newman
This volume provides an important reading of the political implications of postmodernity, focussing on the nature of power, ideology and subjectivity The volume critically discusses the work of key postructuralist thinkers: Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze and the often overlooked Max Stirner
Author |
: Jesse S. Cohn |
Publisher |
: Susquehanna University Press |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1575911051 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781575911052 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation by : Jesse S. Cohn
"Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation is intended to provide readers of literary criticism, art history, political philosophy, and the social sciences with a fresh perspective from which to revisit dead-end theoretical debates over concepts such as "agency," "essentialism," and "realism" - and, at the same time, to offer a new take on anarchism itself, challenging conventional readings of the tradition. The anarchism that emerges from this reinterpretation is neither a musty rationalism nor a millenarian irrationalism, but a living body of thought that points beyond the sterile antinomies of post-modern and Marxist theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Saul Newman |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 141 |
Release |
: 2018-11-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509528431 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509528431 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Theology by : Saul Newman
God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular political institutions, particularly the sovereign state. In this intellectual tour-de-force, leading political theorist Saul Newman shows how political theology arose alongside secularism, and relates to the problem of legitimising power and authority in modernity. It is not about the power of religion so much as about the religion of power. Examining the current crisis of the liberal order, he argues that recent phenomena such as the rise of populism, the renewed demand for strong national sovereignty and the return of religious fundamentalism may be understood through this paradigm. He illustrates his argument through an exploration of themes such as sovereignty, democracy, economics, technology, ecological catastrophe, messianism and the future of radical politics, engaging with thinkers ranging from Schmitt and Hobbes to Stirner, Foucault, and Agamben. This book will be a crucial text for all students, scholars and general readers interested in the meaning and significance of political theology for political theory.
Author |
: Todd May |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 1994-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271039077 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271039078 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism by : Todd May
The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. What poststructuralists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard offer instead is a political philosophy that can be called tactical: it emphasizes that power emerges from many different sources and operates along many different registers. This approach has roots in traditional anarchist thought, which sees the social and political field as a network of intertwined practices with overlapping political effects. The poststructuralist approach, however, eschews two questionable assumptions of anarchism, that human beings have an (essentially benign) essence and that power is always repressive, never productive. After positioning poststructuralist political thought against the background of Marxism and the traditional anarchism of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon, Todd May shows what a tactical political philosophy like anarchism looks like shorn of its humanist commitments—namely, a poststructuralist anarchism. The book concludes with a defense, contra Habermas and Critical Theory, of poststructuralist political thought as having a metaethical structure allowing for positive ethical commitments.