Saladdin Ahmed

Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism (eBook, PDF)

Marginalized Voices and Dissent

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As we face new and debilitating catastrophes caused by capitalism and nation-state politics, Saladdin Ahmed argues that our only hope is to create space for a new world by negating the existing order. To achieve this new society, Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism outlines a practical philosophy of change that rejects ideologies of false hope and passive hopelessness.

Drawing public attention to the decisiveness of the present historical moment, Ahmed introduces a critical theory of social emancipation based on post-Soviet revolutionary movements that have emerged at the margins of the global social order. The rise of socially and politically exclusionary movements in multiple parts of the world, ongoing ecological crisis, anti-Black racism, and the concretization of despair brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic demand a new approach to revolution, which Ahmed argues, must be rooted in the experiences of the most oppressed in society.

Realizing the epistemological potential of emancipatory movements, Ahmed rejects dystopian nihilism and positions our focus on marginalized spaces to break out of capitalist totalitarianism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350269309
• Artikelnr.: 64068764

Autorenporträt

Saladdin Ahmed is a critical theorist and philosopher, teaching political theory and international relations at Union College, Schenectady, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Crises 1. Philosophy and Plan of the Present Work 2. The
Indispensability of Universal Anti-fascist Solidarity: A Return to Normal
is Neither Possible nor Desirable 3. The Two-Head Beast of Capitalism and
Nation-Statism 4. Capitalism and the Ecological Deadlock 5. Culturalism as
an Ideological Crisis Part II: Negations 6. Refuting the Question of
Alternative 7. The Marginalized and their Cosmopolitan Episteme of
Emancipation 8. Postnihilist Theses on Revolution Summarized Bibliography
Index