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OverviewMany contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves an “anarchist.” It is as if anarchism were unmentionable and had to be concealed, even though its critique of domination and of government is poached by the philosophers. Stop Thief! calls out the plundering of anarchism by philosophy. It’s a call that is all the more resonant today as the planetary demand for an alternative political realm raises a deafening cry. It also alerts us to a new philosophical awakening. Catherine Malabou proposes to answer the cry by re-elaborating a concept of anarchy articulated around a notion of the “non-governable” far beyond an inciting of disobedience or common critiques of capitalism. Anarchism is the only way out, the only pathway that allows us to question the legitimacy of political domination and thereby wfree up the confidence that we need if we are to survive. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine Malabou (University of Paris-X Nanterre) , Carolyn ShreadPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9781509555222ISBN 10: 1509555226 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 24 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note 1 Surveying the Horizon 2 Dissociating Anarchism from Anarchy 3 On the Virtue of Chorus Leaders: Archy and Anarchy in Aristotle’s Politics 4 Ontological Anarchy. From Greece to the Andes: Traveling with Reiner Schürmann 5 Ethical Anarchy: The Heteronomies of Emmanuel Levinas 6 “Responsible Anarchism”: Jacques Derrida’s Drive for Power 7 Anarcheology: Michel Foucault’s Last Government 8 Profanatory Anarchy: Giorgio Agamben’s Zone 9 Staging Anarchy: Jacques Rancière Without Witnesses Conclusion: Being an Anarchist Notes IndexReviews‘Stop Thief! is essential reading for all those committed to understanding and overcoming historic rifts between anarchy (popularly identified with leaderless politics, anti-globalization movements, libertarianism and the deconstructed “administrative state”) and anarchism as philosophy. Boldly contending that “philosophers of anarchy have never conceptualized the anarchist dimension of their concepts of anarchy,” Malabou devotes chapters to major thinkers - Rainer Schürmann, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Rancière - whose work has been qualified as “post-anarchist” in spirit and critical method. Affirming philosophical anarchism with conviction and originality, Malabou reviews historic critiques of political foundationalism and theories of state power that have sought to undo the arké of sovereignty, from Plato, Aristotle and Hobbes to Heidegger and Derrida. She brings to light myriad ways in which structures of anti-domination, destituent power, thwarted mastery and inoperative command arise from their own recursive, self-defeating, autoimmunitarian and negational logics. Older, semi-forgotten anarchist ideas – like mutualism or alternatives to propertied notions of selfhood and privatized right – are brought back and rendered re-usable for a contemporary revolutionary praxis. And with these reinvigorated conceptual frameworks, protean forms of revolt come into relief, positioned against the toxic fusion of “government violence and the uberization of life” that underwrites late liberal, authoritarian political cultures of today.’ Emily Apter, Julius Silver Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University “At a time when the global order of power starts to become anarchic, Malabou attests to the importance and timeliness of anarchism today. In this brilliant intervention, she rethinks anarchism through the problematic of ontological anarchy, breathing new life into this forgotten tradition.” Saul Newman, Goldsmiths University of London “Stop Thief! is essential reading for all those committed to understanding and overcoming historic rifts between anarchy (popularly identified with leaderless politics, anti-globalization movements and libertarianism) and anarchism as philosophy. Older, semi-forgotten anarchist ideas are brought back and rendered re-usable for a contemporary revolutionary praxis. And with these reinvigorated conceptual frameworks, protean forms of revolt come into relief, positioned against the toxic fusion of ‘government violence and the uberization of life’ that underwrites late liberal, authoritarian political cultures of today.” Emily Apter, New York University Author InformationCatherine Malabou is Professor of Philosophy at Kingston University London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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