Anarchism And The Crisis Or Represe Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics

by Cohn, Jesse S.; Brown, Barry A.; Conway, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781575911052
• ISBN10: 1575911051
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Summary

"Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation is intended to provide readers of literary criticism, art history, political philosophy, and the social sciences with a fresh perspective from which to revisit dead-end theoretical debates over concepts such as "agency," "essentialism," and "realism" - and, at the same time, to offer a new take on anarchism itself, challenging conventional readings of the tradition. The anarchism that emerges from this reinterpretation is neither a musty rationalism nor a millenarian irrationalism, but a living body of thought that points beyond the sterile antinomies of post-modern and Marxist theory."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Jesse S. Cohn, who currently teaches English at Purdue University, North Central

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Introduction: The General Form of the Crisis of Representation	p. 11
Hermeneutics
False Solutions	p. 21
The Necessity of a Critique of Representation	p. 39
Anarchism as a Critique of Representation	p. 55
Anarchism Beyond Representalionalism and Antirepresentationalism	p. 79
Anarchist Hermeneutics as Ethics and Ecology	p. 97
Aesthetics
The Fate of Representation, the Fate of Critique	p. 115
Reconstructing Anarchist Aesthetics	p. 152
Aesthetic Production	p. 182
Politics
The Critique of Democracy as Representation	p. 199
The Critique of Economy as Representation	p. 216
The Critique of History as Representation	p. 230
The Critique of Identity as Representation	p. 242
Notes	p. 257
Selected Bibliography	p. 292
Index	p. 312
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