| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) |
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Foreword / Ernesto Laclau -- 1. Marxism and the Problem of Power -- 2. Anarchism -- 3. Stirner and the Politics of the Ego -- 4. Foucault and the Genealogy of Power -- 5. The War-Machine: Deleuze and Guattari -- 6. Derrida and the Deconstruction of Authority -- 7. Lack of the Outside/Outside of the Lack: (Mis)Reading Lacan -- 8. Towards a Politics of Postanarchism |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-188) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Power (Social sciences)
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Anarchism.
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Poststructuralism.
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Authority.
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Authoritarianism.
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Government, Resistance to.
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anarchism.
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post-structuralism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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Anarchism
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Authoritarianism
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Authority
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Government, Resistance to
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Poststructuralism
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Power (Social sciences)
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Anarchismus
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Macht
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739155271 |
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073915527X |
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