From Bakunin to Lacan
Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2001
Summary
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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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2001
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-0240-4
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-5527-1
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 197
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Table of Contents No access
- Foreword No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
- Chapter 1: Marxism and the Problem of Power No access Pages 17 - 36
- Chapter 2: Anarchism No access Pages 37 - 54
- Chapter 3: Stirner and the Politics of the Ego No access Pages 55 - 74
- Chapter 4: Foucault and the Genealogy of Power No access Pages 75 - 96
- Chapter 5: The War-Machine: Deleuze and Guattari No access Pages 97 - 114
- Chapter 6: Derrida and the Deconstruction of Authority No access Pages 115 - 136
- Chapter 7: Lack of the Outside/Outside of the Lack: (Mis)Reading Lacan No access Pages 137 - 156
- Chapter 8: Towards a Politics of Postanarchism No access Pages 157 - 178
- Bibliography No access Pages 179 - 188
- Index No access Pages 189 - 196
- About the Author No access Pages 197 - 197





