How Not to Be Governed Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left

by Klausen, Jimmy Casas; Martel, James; Bargu, Banu; Ciccariello-Maher, George; Gordy, Katherine; Lemm, Vanessa; Loizidou, Elena; May, Todd; McBride, Keally; Stevens, Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9780739150351
• ISBN10: 0739150359
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-13
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced in the midst of these supposed failures. The authors revive the possibility of anarchism even as they examine it with a critical lens. Rather than breaking with prior anarchist practices, this volume reveals the central values and tactics of anarchism that remain with us, practiced even in the most unlikely and ôimpossibleö contexts. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: How Not to Be Governed	p. ix
Anarchist Methods and Political Theory	p. 1
An Anarchism That is Not Anarchism; Notes toward a Critique of Anarchist Imperialism	p. 19
Beside the State: Anarchist Strains in Cuban Revolutionary Thought	p. 47
Kant via Rancière: From Ethics to Anarchism	p. 65
Nietzsche, Aristocratism, and Non-domination	p. 83
Max Stirner, Postanarchy avant la lettre	p. 103
The Late Foucault's Premodernity	p. 123
The Ambivalent Anarchism of Hannah Arendt	p. 143
Emma Goldman and the Power of Revolutionary Love	p. 157
ôThis Is What Democracy Looks Likeö	p. 167
Index	p. 189
List of Contributors	p. 195
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