Anarchism and Political Modernity
By: Nathan Jun
Series: Contemporary Anarchist Studies
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781441140159; 9781441166869
Subjects: History; Anarchism; Postmodernism; Political science; Philosophy; Poststructuralism
Description: This new volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series offers a novel philosophical engagement with anarchism and contests a number of positions established in postanarchist theory. Its new approach makes a valuable contribution to an established debate about anarchism and political theory. It offers a new perspective on the emerging area of anarchist studies that will be of interest to students and theorists in political theory and anarchist studies.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: vii; title: Introduction
pagenum: viii; label: 1.
title: On Politics
pagenum: 1; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: Political naturalism in Aristotle
pagenum: 3; title: Classical and medieval political thought
pagenum: 7; title: Machiavelli
pagenum: 9; title: Social physics
pagenum: 11; title: From politics to political philosophy
pagenum: 15; title: A critique of May’s taxonomy
pagenum: 20; label: 2.
title: On political philosophy
pagenum: 25; title: Normativity: a survey
pagenum: 25; title: An alternative taxonomy
pagenum: 35; title: On political modernity
pagenum: 42; label: 3.
title: Liberalism
pagenum: 47; title: Representationalism
pagenum: 47; title: Human nature
pagenum: 53; title: Normativity
pagenum: 60; title: Politics
pagenum: 64; title: Economics
pagenum: 72; label: 4.
title: Socialism
pagenum: 79; title: Hegel, historicism and holism
pagenum: 79; title: The social conception of human nature
pagenum: 87; title: Morality versus science
pagenum: 89; title: The politics and economics of socialism
pagenum: 91; title: From modernity to anarchism
pagenum: 104; label: 5.
title: Anarchism
pagenum: 109; title: History of the bogeyman
pagenum: 109; title: Defining anarchism
pagenum: 111; title: The political axiology of anarchism
pagenum: 120; title: Anarchism and power
pagenum: 134; title: Anarchism and utopianism
pagenum: 141; title: Nature, humanity and science
pagenum: 143; title: The spectre of Nietzsche
pagenum: 151; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 153; label: 6.
title: Political Postmodernity
pagenum: 155; title: Defining postmodernity
pagenum: 155; title: Deconstructive analysis
pagenum: 155; title: Genealogical analysis
pagenum: 155; title: Poststructuralist anarchism?
pagenum: 164; title: Schizoanalysis
pagenum: 167; title: A critique of May’s poststructuralist anarchism
pagenum: 175; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 185; title: Notes
pagenum: 187; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 224; title: Index
pagenum: 243