Articulated Experiences: Toward a Radical Phenomenology of Contemporary Social Movements

by Vahabzadeh, Peyman

• ISBN13: 9780791456200
• ISBN10: 079145620X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

By reexamining the very foundations of everyday acting and thinking and stepping into the open expanse of a possible-transition to a postmodern era, this book presents a radical phenomena-logical approach to the study of contemporary social movements. It offers a theory of acting that refuses to surrender to norms and legislations and thus always intimates a mode of thinking that challenges various manifestations of ultimacy. Vahabzadeh invites us to radically rethink many basic principles that inform our lives, such as the democratic discourse, the concept of rights, liberal democratic regimes, time and epochs, oppression, acting, and the practice of sociology, in an effort to instate a reworked concept of experience in theories about social movements.

Author Biography

Peyman Vahabzadeh is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow of Political Science at the University of Victoria.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
What Can New Social Movements Tell about Post-Modernity?	1	(6)
Identity and Contemporary Social Movements	7	(34)
Identity, Experiential Hegemonies, Urstiftung	41	(32)
Articulated Experiences: The Epochal (Trans-)Formations of Identities and Social Movements	73	(30)
Technological Liberalism and the Oppressive Categorization of ``Transgressive'' Actors	103	(38)
An Epochal Theory of Action	141	(42)
Radical Phenomenology and the Sociology of Possibilities	183	(6)
Notes	189	(26)
Index	215