New Perspectives on Anarchism

by Jun, Nathan J.; Wahl, Shane; Bankston, Samantha E.; Barclay, Harold; Call, Lewis; Christoyannopoulos, Alexandre J.M.E.; Cisney, Vernon; Cohn, Jesse; DeLeon, Abraham; Dupuis-Déri, Francis; Franks, Benjamin; Gabay, Clive; Goaman, Karen; Guimarães, Rodrigo G

• ISBN13: 9780739132418
• ISBN10: 0739132415
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-10
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

The study of anarchism as a philosophical, political, and social movement has burgeoned both in the academy and in the global activist community in recent years. Taking advantage of this boom in anarchist scholarship, Nathan J. Jun and Shane Wahl have compiled twenty-six cutting-edge essays on this timely topic in New Perspectives on Anarchism.

Author Biography

Nathan J. Jun is assistant professor of philosophy and coordinator of the philosophy program at Midwestern State University. Shane Wahl is an instructor of philosophy at lvy Tech Community College and teaches philosophy and debate to gifted children through Purdue University's Girted Education Resource Institute.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Anarchism and Philosophy
Anarchy in Political Philosophy	p. 9
Is Post-Structuralist Political Theory Anarchist?	p. 25
Power and Anarchy: In/equality + In/visibility in Autonomous Politics	p. 39
The Anarchism of the Other Person	p. 67
The Double Paradigm of Power	p. 85
Anarchism and Political Science
Vanguards and Paternalism	p. 99
What Did the Anarchists Ever Do for Us? Anarchy, Decentralization, and Autonomy at the Seattle Anti-WTO Protests	p. 121
Anarchist Theory and Human Rights	p. 133
Anarchism and Religion
Christian Anarchism: A Revolutionary Reading of the Bible	p. 149
Anarchist Confrontations with Religion	p. 169
Classical Anarchism
Reinventing Resistance: Constructive Activism in Gustav Landauer's Social Philosophy	p. 189
Alchemy in Clarens: Kropotkin and Rectus, 1877-1881	p. 209
Proudhon, Pragmatist	p. 227
Anarchism and Social Science
An Anarchist-Sociologist Research Program: Fertile Areas for Theoretical and Empirical Research	p. 243
Sabotaging the System! Bringing Anarchist Theory into Social Studies Education	p. 267
Whither Anarchist Geography?	p. 281
An Ethnography of Nowhere: Notes Toward a Re-envisioning of Utopian Thinking	p. 303
Anarchism and Ecology
Free from Nature or Free Nature? An Anarchist Critique of Transhumanism	p. 315
Zerzan, Primitivism, and the Value of Culture	p. 333
New Remedies or New Evils? Anarchism and the Scientific Revolution	p. 363
The State of Nature: The Political Philosophy of Primitivism and the Culture of Contamination	p. 381
Anarchism and Culture
What is Anarchist Cultural Studies? Precursors, Problems, and Prospects	p. 403
The Past, the Period Drama, and Mutual Aid	p. 425
Crisis of Authority Aboard the Battlestar Galaciica	p. 449
Creating Guerrilla Texts in Rhizomatic Value-Practices on the Sliding Scale of Autonomy: Toward An Anti-Authoritarian Cultural Logic	p. 473
Index	p. 497
About the Contributors	p. 499
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