Resistance and the Politics of Truth : : Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou / / Iain MacKenzie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: MacKenzie, Iain,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Politik ; 45
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (148 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: A Time to Think and Act Differently? --; Chapter 1: From the Truth about Politics to the Politics of Truth --; Chapter 2: Truth and Power --; Chapter 3: Learning to Resist --; Chapter 4: The Militant Subject of a Political Truth --; Chapter 5: Resistance in Control Societies --; Conclusion: How to Think and Act Differently --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839439074; 9783110719550; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604016; 9783110603231; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839439074?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Iain MacKenzie.

`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. Iain MacKenzie analyses two of the most compelling of these perspectives: the poststructuralist politics of truth formulated by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the alternative post-foundational account of truth and militancy developed by Alain Badiou. He argues that a critically oriented version of poststructuralism provides both an understanding of the deeply entwined nature of truth and power and a compelling account of the creative practices that may sustain resistance.