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Resistance and the Politics of Truth : Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou / Iain MacKenzie.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edition Politik ; 45Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: 2018Description: 1 online resource (148 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839439074
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 190
LOC classification:
  • JF2051 .M335 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Time to Think and Act Differently? -- Chapter 1: From the Truth about Politics to the Politics of Truth -- Chapter 2: Truth and Power -- Chapter 3: Learning to Resist -- Chapter 4: The Militant Subject of a Political Truth -- Chapter 5: Resistance in Control Societies -- Conclusion: How to Think and Act Differently -- Bibliography
Summary: `The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. Iain MacKenzie analyses two of the most compelling of these perspectives: the poststructuralist politics of truth formulated by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the alternative post-foundational account of truth and militancy developed by Alain Badiou. He argues that a critically oriented version of poststructuralism provides both an understanding of the deeply entwined nature of truth and power and a compelling account of the creative practices that may sustain resistance.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Time to Think and Act Differently? -- Chapter 1: From the Truth about Politics to the Politics of Truth -- Chapter 2: Truth and Power -- Chapter 3: Learning to Resist -- Chapter 4: The Militant Subject of a Political Truth -- Chapter 5: Resistance in Control Societies -- Conclusion: How to Think and Act Differently -- Bibliography

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`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. Iain MacKenzie analyses two of the most compelling of these perspectives: the poststructuralist politics of truth formulated by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the alternative post-foundational account of truth and militancy developed by Alain Badiou. He argues that a critically oriented version of poststructuralism provides both an understanding of the deeply entwined nature of truth and power and a compelling account of the creative practices that may sustain resistance.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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