The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism / / Todd May.
The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and t...
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May, Todd, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism / Todd May. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [1994] ©1994 1 online resource (176 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Failure of Marxism -- 3 Anarchism -- 4 The Positivity of Power and the End of Humanism -- 5 Steps Toward a Poststructuralist Anarchism -- 6 Questions of Ethics -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. What poststructuralists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard offer instead is a political philosophy that can be called tactical: it emphasizes that power emerges from many different sources and operates along many different registers. This approach has roots in traditional anarchist thought, which sees the social and political field as a network of intertwined practices with overlapping political effects. The poststructuralist approach, however, eschews two questionable assumptions of anarchism, that human beings have an (essentially benign) essence and that power is always repressive, never productive.After positioning poststructuralist political thought against the background of Marxism and the traditional anarchism of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon, Todd May shows what a tactical political philosophy like anarchism looks like shorn of its humanist commitments—namely, a poststructuralist anarchism. The book concludes with a defense, contra Habermas and Critical Theory, of poststructuralist political thought as having a metaethical structure allowing for positive ethical commitments. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023) Anarchism. Political science Philosophy. Poststructuralism. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. bisacsh 0-271-01045-2. 0-271-01046-0. Bakunin. Critical. Gilles Deleuze. Habermas. Jean-FranÎois Lyotard. Kropotkin. Marxism. Michel Foucault. Philosophy. Political Philosophy of Post-Structuralist Anarchism The. Political. Proudhon. Theory. political. poststructuralist. social. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783110745269 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271071695?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271071695 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271071695/original |
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