Praxis and revolution : a theory of social transformation / Eva von Redecker ; translated by Lucy Duggan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redecker, Eva von, author.

Contributor:

Duggan, Lucy, 1986- translator.

Series:

New directions in critical theory.

New directions in critical theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions.

Social action.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory's understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold new account of how revolution occurs. She argues that revolutions are not singular events but extended processes: beginning from the interstices of society, they succeed by gradually rearticulating social structures toward a new paradigm.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface to the American Edition

Preface to the German Edition

Introduction: "It Is a Revolution"

Part I: Maria's Ménage and the Transience of Heterotopian Praxis

1. The Rules of Praxis

2. The Materiality of Praxis

3. The Connections Between Practices

Part II: Jacobin Knitters and the Tracks of Structuration

4. The Duality of Social Structures

5. Recognition and Performative Structuration

6. Structures in Three States of Aggregate

Part III: Marta's Invisible Affinity Group and Interstitial Upheavals

7. Disaggregation: Performative Critique and the Laughter of Mimesis

8. Constitution: Subcollective Association

9. Contamination: Overlaying Structures

Part IV: The Execution of the Marquise and Metaleptic Paradigm Shifts

10. Paradigm Shifts as a Gradual Replacement of Anchoring Practices

11. The Revolutionary Emergence of the Concept of Revolution

12. Metaleptic Dynamics

Conclusion: "The difficulties of the plains" and the Revolutionary Tradition

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55254-8

OCLC:

1240265071