Description

How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced in the midst of these supposed failures. The authors revive the possibility of anarchism even as they examine it with a critical lens. Rather than breaking with prior anarchist practices, this volume reveals the central values and tactics of anarchism that remain with us, practiced even in the most unlikely and "impossible" contexts.

Table of Contents

1 1. Introduction: "How Not to Be Governed"
2 2. Anarchist Methods and Political Theory
3 3. An Anarchism That Is Not Anarchism: Notes toward a Critique of Anarchist Imperialism
4 4. Beside the State: Anarchist Strains in Cuban Revolutionary Thought
5 5. Kant via Rancière: From Ethics to Anarchism
6 6. Nietzsche, Aristocratism and Non-domination
7 7. Max Stirner, Postanarchy avant la lettre
8 8. The late Foucault's premodernity
9 9. The ambivalent anarchism of Hannah Arendt
10 10. Emma Goldman and the Power of Revolutionary Love
11 11. "This is what Democracy looks like"

Product details

Published Jan 13 2011
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 244
ISBN 9780739150344
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 241 x 162 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Jimmy Casas Klausen

Anthology Editor

James Martel

Contributor

Banu Bargu

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Katherine Gordy

Contributor

Vanessa Lemm

Contributor

Elena Loizidou

Contributor

Todd May

Contributor

Keally McBride

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