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Anarchism and the Crisis or Represe: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics
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Anarchism and the Crisis or Represe: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Jesse S. Cohn; Barry A. Brown; Christopher Conway


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Current theories of knowledge, art, and power are locked into sterile debates around the question of representation. This book examines the limits of antirepresentationalism in these fields and argues that the anarchist tradition can point the way beyond our contemporary crisis of representation. The author rereads the theory and practical experiences of anarchism from the nineteenth century to the present, proposing a radical revision of received notions of the subject - from the equation of anarchy with literary decadence to the interpretation of anarchism as yet another discourse founded on a notion of the human essence. What emerges, instead, is a complex portrait of anarchism as a body of thought that provides the framework for a kind of critical realism, with implications for fields ranging from aesthetics to economics, from philosophy to politics. Jesse Cohn teaches English at Purdue University North Central.

Details

  • Title Anarchism and the Crisis or Represe: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics
  • Author Jesse S. Cohn; Barry A. Brown; Christopher Conway
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 326
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Susquehanna University Press
  • Date September 30, 2006
  • ISBN 9781575911052 / 1575911051
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.52 x 0.97 in (23.37 x 16.56 x 2.46 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006000679
  • Dewey Decimal Code 335.83

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 179