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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785933703321

Titolo

How not to be governed [[electronic resource] ] : readings and interpretations from a critical anarchist left / / edited by Jimmy Casas Klausen and James Martel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2011

ISBN

0-7391-5036-7

1-283-61407-3

9786613926524

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KlausenJimmy Casas <1976->

MartelJames R

Disciplina

320.5/7

Soggetti

Anarchism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : how not to be governed / James Martel & Jimmy Casas Klausen -- Anarchist methods and political theory / Jacqueline Stevens -- An anarchism that is not anarchism : notes toward a critique of anarchist imperialism / George Ciccariello-Maher -- Beside the state : anarchist strains in Cuban revolutionary thought / Katherine Gordy -- Kant via Ranciè€re : from ethics to anarchism / Todd May -- Nietzsche, aristocratism, and non-domination / Vanessa Lemm -- Max Stirner, postanarchy avant la lettre / Banu Bargu -- The late Foucault's premodernity / Jimmy Casas Klausen -- The ambivalent anarchism of Hannah Arendt / James Martel -- Emma Goldman and the power of revolutionary love / Keally McBride -- "This is what democracy looks like" / Elena Loizidou.

Sommario/riassunto

How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced in the midst of these supposed failures. The authors revive the possibility of anarchism even as they examine it with a critical lens. Rather than breaking with prior anarchist practices,



this volume reveals the central values and tactics of anarchism that remain with us, practiced even in the most