How Not to Be Governed : Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchi...

by Klausen, Jimmy (EDT); Klausen, Casas (EDT); Martel, James (EDT)

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How Not to Be Governed : Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left, Paperback by Klausen, Jimmy (EDT); Klausen, Casas (EDT); Martel, James (EDT), ISBN 0739150359, ISBN-13 9780739150351, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Fresh, brave, and excellent to think about. Nothing beats this as an original, critical, and sympathetic reassessment of anarchism as a body of evolving emancipatory practices and as a body of knowledge. I can't wait to teach it." -James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology. Yale University "This is a unique and exciting collection of inquiries into anarchism and political theory-anarchism as political theory, Jimmy Casas Klausen and James Martel's introduction usefully situates anarchism in relation to contemporary political struggles. The authors make use of a wide variety of political theorists. including Foucault, Arendt, Benjamin, and Nietzsche, to discern and develop anarchist themes." -Kathy Ferguson, University of Hawai'i 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 practice

• ISBN: 9780739150351
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