Resist Everything Except Temptation
Subtitle: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde
By: Kristian Williams
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Chico, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781849353205
Copyright date: 2020
Description: Oscar Wilde is remembered as a wit and a dandy, as a gay martyr, and as a brilliant writer, but his philosophical depth and political radicalism are often forgotten. *Resist Everything Except Temptation* locates Wilde in the tradition of left-wing anarchism, and argues that only when we take his politics seriously can we begin to understand the man, his life, and his work. Drawing from literary, historical, and biographical evidence, including archival research, the book outlines the philosophical influences and political implications of Wilde's ideas on art, sex, morality, violence, and above all, individualism.

Williams raises questions about the relationships between culture and politics, between utopian aspirations and practical programs, and between individualism, group identity, and class struggle. The resulting volume represents, not merely a historical curiosity, but a contribution to current debates within political theory and a salvo in the broader culture wars.
Table of contents: title: FOREWORD: Green Carnation; Black Flag by Alan Moore
pagenum: 1; title: INTRODUCTION: The Soul of Man under … Anarchism?
pagenum: 5; title: To the Depths
pagenum: 5; title: Declarations and Evasions
pagenum: 9; title: Resist Everything
pagenum: 15; title: On the Side of Civilization
pagenum: 21; label: 1
title: The Dynamite Policy: Cosmopolitan Nationalists, Aesthetic Terrorists, and Nihilist Saints
pagenum: 25; title: Propaganda by the Deed
pagenum: 28; title: Making Sense of Vera
pagenum: 28; title: Nationalist Contexts and Contentious Identities
pagenum: 38; title: The Critic as Anarchist
pagenum: 46; label: 2
title: The Basis for a New Civilization: Art and Labor, Artists and Workers, Aestheticism and Soclalism
pagenum: 61; title: Useless Beauty
pagenum: 61; title: Ewery Worker an Artist
pagenum: 69; title: Fairy Tale FEconomics
pagenum: 79; title: From Aestheticism to Anarchism
pagenum: 88; label: 3
title: Love Is Law The New Woman, the Soclety Plays, and the Transvaluation of Values
pagenum: 99; title: The Woman Question
pagenum: 99; title: Trivial Comedies?
pagenum: 102; title: Marriage, Family, and Legitimacy
pagenum: 117; label: 4
title: A Language of Love: Posing, Speaking, Naming, Queering
pagenum: 123; title: The Ordeal
pagenum: 123; title: Names and Laws
pagenum: 136; title: Aftermath
pagenum: 151; label: 5
title: Refuse to Be Broken by Force: Prison Writing and Anti-Prison Writing
pagenum: 159; title: A Criminal with a Noble Face
pagenum: 159; title: The Poet as Prisoner
pagenum: 160; title: The Prisoner as Poet
pagenum: 176; label: 6
title: The Eternal Rebel: Outcast and Icon, in Exile and Utopla
pagenum: 197; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 209; title: Endnotes
pagenum: 211; title: Index
pagenum: 275