By Duane Rousselle

Post-anarchism has been of substantial significance within the discussions of radical intellectuals around the globe within the final decade. In its hottest shape, it demonstrates a wish to mixture the main promising elements of conventional anarchist concept with advancements in post-structuralist and post-modernist notion. Post-Anarchism: A Reader comprises the main entire selection of essays approximately this emergent physique of notion, making it a vital and obtainable source for teachers, intellectuals, activists and anarchists attracted to radical philosophy.

Many of the chapters were formative to the improvement of a enormously 'post-anarchist' method of politics, aesthetics, and philosophy. Others reply to the so-called 'post-anarchist flip' with warning and scepticism. The ebook additionally comprises unique contributions from numerous of state-of-the-art 'post-anarchists', inviting additional debate and new methods of conceiving post-anarchism throughout a few disciplines.

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In analysing the problems with Enlightenment epistemology, the common features of the post-structural position emerge. Reacting specifically to the structuralism of Saussure and Lévi-Strauss, the post-structural criticism is a comprehensive critique of the idea of representation. Linked to the questioning of the status of representation and to the rejection of a fixed conception of human nature is the denial of the ‘grand narratives’ that underlie mass politics. In the attack on representation, there is an implicit negation of any fixed content for subjectivity in social and historical discourse.

From the assumption of a transcendent unity of thought, whether as the ‘doctrine of the forms’ or as things in themselves, the idea of political unity rests its foundation on this epistemological doctrine. The post-structuralists’ view that the content of subjectivity is relative and contingent on the discourse that determined the acceptability of statements as true or untrue questions the assumptions on which the modern nation state is built. In this view, the state acts to impose its definition of subjectivity on human beings.

This can be achieved, I argue, on the basis of non-ontological assertions regarding the individual within the post-structural epistemology. This, of course, means that the content of subjectivity must be eliminated. The movement of the post-structuralists toward language philosophy offers one possibility. The political argument revolves around the conditions that are necessary for discourse, political or otherwise. Discourse is metaphorical in character. Signs and symbols are transmitted between a sender and a receiver.

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