Postanarchism

A Politics of Anti-Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID6293232
AuthorsStanley Newman (0000-0003-2519-3104, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author), Saul Newman (0000-0001-9841-1518)
Year2011
Volume16
Issue3
Pages313-327
Publication date2011-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569317.2011.607301
OpenAlexW1979230688
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited3

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 paradigm shift from the representative politics of the party and vanguard to that of movements and decentralized networks—its humanist and rationalist epistemological framework needs to be rethought in the light of poststructuralist and postmodern theories. Here I develop an alternative understanding of anarchism based on a non-essentialist politics of autonomy

Autonomy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Humanism · Ideology · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Social science · Sociology · Statism · Vanguard · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics