From Bakunin to Lacan
Subtitle: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power
By: Saul Newman
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007-09-28
Place of publication: Lanham, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780739124550
Subjects: Political; Philosophy / Political; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Anarchism; Political Philosophy; Political Theory; Philosophy
Description: In its comparison of anarchist and poststructuralist thought, From Bakunin to Lacan contends that the most pressing political problem we face today is the proliferation and intensification of power. Saul Newman targets the tendency of radical political theories and movements to reaffirm power and authority, in different guises, in their very attempt to overcome it. In his examination of thinkers such as Bakunin, Lacan, Stirner, and Foucault Newman explores important epistemological, ontological, and political questions: Is the essential human subject the point of departure from which power and authority can be opposed? Or, is the humanist subject itself a site of domination that must be unmasked? As it deftly charts this debate’s paths of emergence in political thought, the book illustrates how the question of essential identities defines and re-defines the limits and possibilities of radical politics today.

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Table of contents: label: 1
title: Foreword; label: 2
title: Introduction; label: 3
title: Marxism and the Problem of Power; label: 4
title: Anarchism; label: 5
title: Stirner and the Politics of Ego; label: 6
title: Foucault and the Geneology of Power; label: 7
title: The War Machine: Deleuze and Guattari; label: 8
title: Derrida and the Deconstruction of Authority; label: 9
title: Lack of the Outside/Outside of the Lack: (Mis)Reading Lacan; label: 10
title: Towards a Politics of Post-Anarchism