Stanley Newman

Biographic Data

ID95753
NAMEStanley Newman
GIVEN NAMESStanley
FAMILY NAMENewman
SIGNATURENEWMAN S
AFFILIATIONSGoldsmiths University of London
ORCID0000-0003-2519-3104
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS127
TOTAL CITATIONS345
AUTHOR COUNT127
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1932
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX10

  • Recontesting the Sacred

    Open AccessJames Martins, James Martin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Ideologies2025

    In this paper, we explore the contribution that political theology can make to the study of political ideologies. In foregrounding the interaction between theological and political ways of thinking, political theology traces the lingering presence of the sacred in secular politics. It refers not merely to religious doctrines but also to a variety of ways of registering the ‘extraordinary’ dimension in modern political orders. We sketch the develo…

  • The Anarchist before the Law

    Stanley Newman, Saul Newman et al.BOOKAnarchist Before the Law2024

    Explores the critical encounter between anarchism and law Explores the critical encounter between anarchism and legal philosophy Develops an original anarchist theory of law without authority and coercion Shows how anarchism can cast fresh light on questions of jurisprudence, state sovereignty, political obligation, legal violence, civil disobedience and human rights Draws on continental and analytical approaches to legal theory When might an ana…

  • Fugitive Truth

    Open AccessStanley Newman, Saul NewmanARTICLEJavnost - The Public2024

    In the sixty years since the publication of Jürgen Habermas' magnum opus, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the public sphere now faces a new threat in the era of “post-truth” politics. The preponderance of lies, mis/disinformation, “fake news”, “alternative facts”, conspiracy theories, and the general breakdown of trust in established sources of knowledge and information has led to the fragmentation and deepening polarisation o…

  • Political Theology and the Anthropocene in advance

    Stanley Newman, Saul NewmanARTICLEPhilosophy Today2024

    Carl Schmitt’s political theology—which refers to the translation of theological concepts into secular political and legal categories, namely sovereignty and the state of exception—is defined against a background of “metaphysical” constellations where, according to Schmitt, bourgeois individualism and the nihilism of technology have come to dominate the modern age. My argument is that our contemporary age is dominated by a new “metaphysical” cons…

  • Post-Truth, Postmodernism and the Public Sphere

    Open AccessStanley Newman, Saul NewmanCHAPTEREurope in the Age of Post-Truth…2023

    This chapter explores the epistemic and political challenge of post-truth discourse to the idea of the liberal democratic public sphere—a challenge that has been intensified in the time of right-wing populism and COVID-19. However, I also take this as an opportunity to rethink the notion of the public sphere, pointing to the way that emancipatory social movements disrupt the institutions of the liberal democratic state through their claims for so…

  • Pós-anarquismo e política radical hoje

    Open AccessStanley Newman, Saul Newman et al.ARTICLE(Des)troços revista de pensamento…2023

    The present article intends to discuss the meaning of post-anarchism, understood not as a later current of the classic anarchism of the 19th century, but as a contemporary theoretical orientation that, criticizing the universalism, humanism and progressivism of the traditional conceptions of anarchism, is capable of representing an ontological reading key for current radical politics. To this end, the controversies between Marxism and anarchism a…

  • Seeing Like an Anarchist

    Stanley NewmanARTICLETheory & Event2023

    Seeing Like an Anarchist Saul Newman (bio) James R. Martel. Anarchist Prophets: Disappointing Vision and the Power of Collective Sight. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $28.95 (pb). ISBN: 9781478018414. James Martel has made important inroads into new ways of understanding anarchism. We have seen this in his previous work on Walter Benjamin, in which he deploys concepts like "divine violence"1 and the "one and only law" (the Secon…

  • La Boétie and republican liberty

    Open AccessStanley NewmanARTICLEEuropean Journal of Political…2022Cited by: 4References: 10

    The 16th-century French humanist writer Etienne de La Boétie has not often been considered in literature on republican political thought, despite his famous essay, Discours de la Servitude Volontaire, displaying a number of clear republican tropes and themes, being largely concerned with the problem of arbitrary power embodied in the figure of the tyrant. Yet, I argue that the real significance of La Boétie’s text is in his radical concept of vol…

  • Power, Freedom and Obedience in Foucault and La Boétie

    Open AccessStanley NewmanARTICLETheory Culture & Society2022Cited by: 3References: 7

    I investigate the contemporary problem of obedience through an exploration of Michel Foucault and Étienne de La Boétie, showing how the former drew on the latter's concept of voluntary servitude as a way of thinking through the paradoxical relationship between power, freedom and subjectivity. My argument is that Foucault's theory of government as the 'conduct of conduct' may be understood as a reflection on the question of voluntary servitude. My…

  • Political theology and religious pluralism

    Open AccessStanley NewmanARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Theory2021Cited by: 2References: 5

    Recent debates in liberal political theory have sought to come to terms with the post-secular condition, characterised by deep religious pluralism, the resurgence of right-wing populism, as well as new social movements for economic, ecological and racial justice. These forces represent competing claims on the public space and create challenges for the liberal model of state neutrality. To better grasp this problem, I argue for a more comprehensiv…

  • Gustav Landauer’s Anarcho-Mysticism and the Critique of Political Theology

    Stanley NewmanARTICLEPolitical Theology2020Cited by: 3References: 4

    This paper explores the anarcho-mystical thought of Gustav Landauer as a critical response to Schmitt's sovereign-centric political theology. It is argued that Landauer's thought effects a radical displacement of the concept of state sovereignty through autonomous forms of community, subjectivity and affinity. Central here, I argue, is his notion of mystical withdrawal and spiritual self-transformation. I develop some parallels here with recent i…

  • Ownness created a new freedom’

    Stanley NewmanARTICLECritical Review of International…2017References: 5

    This paper will examine Max Stirner’s notion of ownness as an alternative paradigm of freedom. I argue that ownness – which implies a radical form of self-ownership or self-mastery – is not reducible to any of the familiar categories of freedom such as negative or positive liberty; nor does it fit in with the republican model of liberty as non-domination. The problem with these understandings is that they make freedom dependent on external condit…

  • What is an Insurrection? Destituent Power and Ontological Anarchy in Agamben and Stirner

    Open AccessStanley Newman, Saul NewmanARTICLEPolitical Studies2017Cited by: 14References: 19

    The aim of this article is to develop a theoretical understanding of the insurrection as a central concept in radical politics in order to account for contemporary movements and forms of mobilisation that seek to withdraw from governing institutions and affirm autonomous practices and forms of life. I will develop a theory of insurrection by investigating the parallel thinking of Giorgio Agamben and Max Stirner. Starting with Stirner’s central di…

  • Faith and Fear

    Open AccessStanley Newman, Saul NewmanARTICLEPeace & Change2014

    This study analyzes two case studies: the U nionist– R epublican conflict and the I sraeli– P alestinian conflict. These disputes are comparable in that peace accords depend on majorities ceding rights to subordinate nationalist groups. However, dominant nationalist groups in the two cases have behaved differently. Unionists have proven more willing to make the necessary political concessions for peace. Testing hypotheses derived from theories of…

  • Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights

    John Lechte, Stanley Newman et al.BOOKAgamben and the Politics of Human…2013

    Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics and condemned to 'bare life'? GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748645725','ISBN:9780748677726','ISBN:9780748677740']); Human rights are in crisis today. Everywhere one looks, there is violence, deprivation, and oppression, which human rights norms seem powerless to prevent. This book investigates the roots of the current crisis through the thought of Ita…

  • Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights

    Open AccessJohn Lechte, Stanley Newman et al.BOOKAgamben And The Politics Of Human…2013

    Most commentators agree that human rights today are in crisis. Virtually everywhere one looks, there is violence, deprivation and oppression, which human rights norms – prominent as they are in the global order – seem powerless to prevent. This book investigates the roots of the current crisis through the thought of Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben. While Agamben is critical of human rights, he nevertheless opens up crucial thresholds and lin…

  • Anarchism and political modernity

    Stanley NewmanARTICLEJournal of Political Power2013Cited by: 1

    by Nathan Jun, New York, NY, Continuum, 2012, 250 pp., ISBN 978-1441140159 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4411-6640-1 (paperback) Within anarchist scholarship – and there has been a lot of this appearing i

  • Anarchism and Law

    Stanley Newman, Saul NewmanARTICLEGriffith Law Review2012

    This article uses the political philosophy of anarchism to critically interrogate the limits of legal authority, showing that the law’s claim to unconditional obedience ultimately is unjustified. Here I turn to Walter Benjamin to unmask the violent foundations of legal authority, and to explore critical and radical responses to this – through Georges Sorel’s notion of the ‘proletarian general strike’, and through Benjamin’s related notion of ‘div…

  • Between Optimism and Pessimism

    Stanley NewmanARTICLENationalism and Ethnic Politics2012Cited by: 1

    The Oslo Accords failed to end Israeli-Palestinian violence and led to a final settlement of the conflict. This article examines Israeli attitudes toward conflict resolution and argues that the peace process, despite its setbacks, has increased Israeli support for certain concessions. While support for the “Oslo Process” may have declined, Jewish Israeli acceptance of the creation of a Palestinian state has risen dramatically. Israelis remain com…

  • Agamben, Arendt and human rights

    Open AccessJohn Lechte, Stanley Newman et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Theory2012Cited by: 10References: 5

    The key theme in this essay is the rethinking of the human, as inspired by the work of Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt. The human here is not a model or concept to be realised, just as community to which the human is linked is not an ideal, but a 'community to come'. This is revealed only by paying close attention to modes of bearing witness to the human, as instanced, for example, by Agamben's text, Remnants of Auschwitz. Current notions of po…

  • Marx Through Post-Structuralism

    Stanley NewmanARTICLEGlobal Discourse2011

  • Postanarchism and space

    Open AccessStanley NewmanARTICLEPlanning Theory2011Cited by: 12References: 15

    In this paper, I call for a re-consideration of anarchism and its alternative ways of conceptualising spaces for radical politics. Here I apply a Lacanian analysis of the social imaginary to explore the utopian fantasies and desires that underpin social spaces, discourses and practices – including planning, and revolutionary politics. I will go on to develop – via Castoriadis and others – a distinctly post-anarchist conception of political space …

  • Crowned Anarchy

    Open AccessStanley NewmanARTICLEMillennium Journal of International…2011Cited by: 6

    In this article I will explore the paradoxical relationship between anarchism and realism in International Relations (IR) theory. I will do this in an oblique way by uncovering an uncomfortable complicity shared by that existentialist and heretical realist, Carl Schmitt, with his ideological arch-enemies the anarchists. In their diametrically opposed positions on the state, both Schmitt and the anarchists reveal the absolutism of the state in the…

  • Postanarchism

    Stanley Newman, Saul NewmanARTICLEJournal of Political Ideologies2011Cited by: 10References: 2

    This article outlines a politics of postanarchism, which is based on a radical renewal—via poststructuralist theory—of classical anarchism's critique of statism and authority and its political ethics of egalibertarianism. I contend that while many of the theoretical categories of classical anarchism continue to be relevant today—and indeed are becoming more relevant with the collapse of competing radical projects and what might be seen as a parad…

  • The libertarian impulse

    Stanley Newman, Saul NewmanARTICLEJournal of Political Ideologies2011

    In the wake of the collapse of Marxism, the unseemly demise of social democracy and the increasingly illiberal nature of so-called liberal societies, questions are now being raised about the future direction of radical politics. Amidst a certain disengagement from mainstream political parties, and a crisis of legitimacy in the established political order, there has emerged a renewed interest in more libertarian forms of politics, where the focus …