The anarchist turn / edited by Jacob Blumenfeld, Chiara Bottici and Simon Critchley.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Blumenfeld, Jacob, editor of compilation, author.

Bottici, Chiara, editor of compilation, author.

Critchley, Simon, 1960- editor.

Conference Name:

Anarchist Turn (Conference) (2011 : New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2013.

Summary:

The concept of anarchy is often presented as a recipe for pure disorder. The Anarchist Turn brings together fresh perspectives on anarchism to argue that in fact it represents a form of collective, truly democratic social organization. The book shows how in the last decade the negative caricature of anarchy has begun to crack. Globalization and the social movements it spawned have proved what anarchists have long been advocating: an anarchical order is not just desirable, but also feasible. The contributors, including leading anarchist and critical theorists, argue that with the failure of both free markets and state socialism the time has come for an 'anarchist turn' in political philosophy. In doing so they relate the anarchist hypothesis to a range of other disciplines such as politics, anthropology, economics, history and sociology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Black and red : the freedom of equals / Chiara Bottici

The politics of commensality / Banu Bargu

Friendship as resistance / Todd May

An-archy between metapolitics and politics / Miguel Abensour

Undoing patriarchy, subverting politics : anarchism as a practice of care / Mitchell Cowen Verter

Of what is anarcha-feminism the name? / Cinzia Arruzza

Black, red, pink and green : breaking boundaries, building bridges / Laura Corradi

The anarchist geography of no-place / Stephen Duncombe

The fighting ground / Alberto Toscano

Reiner Schürmann's faultline topology and the anthropocene / Stephanie Wakefield

The anarchist moment / Andrej Grubac̆ić

Palestine, state politics and the anarchist impasse / Judtigh Butler == Spread anarchy, live communism / The accused of Tarnac

Postface : occupation and revolution / Jacob Blumenfeld.

Notes:

Derived from papers presented at a conference called 'The Anarchist Turn', held at the New School for Social Research in New York, May 5-6, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745333434

0745333435

0745333427

9780745333427

OCLC:

806013982