Being against the world : rebellion and constitution / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guardiola-Rivera, Óscar.

Series:

Birkbeck Law Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government, Resistance to.

Social conflict.

Revolutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Birkbeck Law Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom fighters escaping the wheel of necessity, and learns from them.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Art, politics and infinite critique; Chapter 1: Archaic objects; Chapter 2: Uncanny encounters; Chapter 3: An introduction to fetishism (with a plea for materialism); Chapter 4: The most sublime of fetishists; Chapter 5: Let us make love (and listen to Death From Above): Notes on psychoanalysis; Chapter 6: The love that seeks no other: Further notes . . .; Chapter 7: Horror in philosophy; Chapter 8: Rip it up and start again; Chapter 9: Sex, laws and rock 'n' roll: On music as a radical organising principle

Chapter 10: Guevara's choice On revolution as a radical organising principleBibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-04624-3

1-281-70659-0

9786611706593

0-203-93076-2

9780203930762

OCLC:

437213208