TY - BOOK AU - MacKenzie,Iain TI - Resistance and the Politics of Truth: Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou T2 - Edition Politik SN - 9783839439074 AV - JF2051 .M335 2018 U1 - 190 PY - 2018///] CY - Bielefeld PB - transcript Verlag KW - Politics, Practical KW - Alain Badiou KW - Gilles Deleuze KW - Michel Foucault KW - Political Philosophy KW - Political Science KW - Political Theory KW - Politics KW - Post-Foundationalism KW - Post-structuralism KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - `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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839439074?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839439074 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839439074/original ER -