Theorizing contemporary anarchism : solidarity, mimesis and radical social change /

Theorizing contemporary anarchism : solidarity, mimesis and radical social change /

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Author / Creator:Janicka, Iwona, author.
Imprint:London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
©2017
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Social change.
Anarchism.
Anarchism.
Social change.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12589165
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ISBN:9781474276191
1474276199
9781474276207
1474276202
9781474276214
1474276210
1474276180
9781474276184
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebrary, viewed June 2, 2017).
Summary:The turn of the Millennium demonstrated a fully-fledged revival and fusion of various left-wing social movements with differing agendas. Movements for women's, black, indigenous, LGTB and animal liberation as well as ecological, anti-nuclear and anti-war groups unified against the global capital. Considering the diverse emphases of these movements, is there a philosophical framework that could help us understand their nature and their modes of operation in the 21st century? This book provides a set of conceptual tools offering a theoretical model of 'slow' social transformation, a modality of social change that explicitly differs from the irruptive model of a revolution or a paradigm-changing event. Instead, it proposes the two concepts of mimetic contagion and solidarity with singularity which allow us to understand what is currently happening in the activist milieu. By bringing together some of today's most important thinkers, including Butler, Girard, Badiou, and Sloterdijk this book suggests a philosophical lens to look at the alternative living projects that contemporary left-wing activists undertake in practice.
Other form:Print version: Janicka, Iwona. Theorizing contemporary anarchism. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781474276184

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