TY  - BOOK
AU  - May,Todd
TI  - The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism
SN  - 9780271071695
AV  - JA71 .M39 1994
U1  - 320.01 23
PY  - 1994///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Anarchism
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Poststructuralism
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 0-271-01045-2
KW  - 0-271-01046-0
KW  - Bakunin
KW  - Critical
KW  - Gilles Deleuze
KW  - Habermas
KW  - Jean-FranÎois Lyotard
KW  - Kropotkin
KW  - Marxism
KW  - Michel Foucault
KW  - Political Philosophy of Post-Structuralist Anarchism The
KW  - Political
KW  - Proudhon
KW  - Theory
KW  - political
KW  - poststructuralist
KW  - social
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 Introduction --; 2 The Failure of Marxism --; 3 Anarchism --; 4 The Positivity of Power and the End of Humanism --; 5 Steps Toward a Poststructuralist Anarchism --; 6 Questions of Ethics --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. What poststructuralists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard offer instead is a political philosophy that can be called tactical: it emphasizes that power emerges from many different sources and operates along many different registers. This approach has roots in traditional anarchist thought, which sees the social and political field as a network of intertwined practices with overlapping political effects. The poststructuralist approach, however, eschews two questionable assumptions of anarchism, that human beings have an (essentially benign) essence and that power is always repressive, never productive.After positioning poststructuralist political thought against the background of Marxism and the traditional anarchism of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon, Todd May shows what a tactical political philosophy like anarchism looks like shorn of its humanist commitments—namely, a poststructuralist anarchism. The book concludes with a defense, contra Habermas and Critical Theory, of poststructuralist political thought as having a metaethical structure allowing for positive ethical commitments
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