Chris Henry

Ethics of Political Resistance (eBook, ePUB)

Althusser, Badiou, Deleuze

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What and how should individuals resist in political situations? Chris Henry brings together the work of Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze in order to offer a new idea of political practice He develops a structural ontology that gives rise to non-idealist, non-dogmatic, yet ethical practices of resistance against the return of classical ontological dualities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474447751
• Artikelnr.: 72421326

Autorenporträt

Chris Henry is an Associate Lecturer in the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Badiou: Being and Failure
A question of dualities
Being resistant
Political ontology
Presuppositions
The truth of mathematics
Who resists? Just Some-One
The failure of being
2. Contra axiomatics: the persistence of Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze
An Althusserian conjuncture
Which Althusser?
Relative autonomy within unity
Philosophical dualisms
A very full void
Time and persistence
The subject as practice
Non-dogmatic philosophy?
3. A time for practice
Speculative or problematic?
Meillassoux's problem with Hume
The way the world really works
The hope of speculative resistance
Ideas and the social formation
Time and the syntheses of Ideas
An ontology proper to structuralism
Philosophy and idealism
4. Genius and ethology
Deleuze, morality and ethics
Ethical mediation
The necessity of ethics
Genius and the art of life
The repetition of genius
Mediated genius
Conclusion: The art of practical resistance
Bibliography