Now available for ordering and/or free download…
A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze
Daniel Colson
Translated by Jesse Cohn
A provocative exploration of hidden affinities and genealogies in
anarchist thought
Is the thought of Gilles Deleuze secretly linked to Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon’s declaration: “I am an anarchist”? Has anarchism, for more
than a century and a half, been secretly Deleuzian? In the guise of a
playfully unorthodox lexicon, sociologist Daniel Colson presents an
exploration of hidden affinities between the great philosophical
heresies and “a thought too scandalous to take its place in the official
edifice of philosophy,” with profound implications for the way we
understand social movements.
“In a creative and yet precise way, Daniel Colson brings together two
lines of thought – philosophy from Spinoza to Leibniz – and anarchism
from Proudhon to the present day. At their intersection he discovers an
affirmative and expressive anarchism that rejects all forms of
resentment and negativity. This is anarchism as joy and empowerment
rather than sadness and accusation.” – Todd May, author of The Political
Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism
“Colson’s Lexicon is an inspiring resource for conceptualizing
anarchism: it offers new, exciting paths for exploring anarchism with
French thought and French thought with anarchism.” – Iwona Janicka,
author of Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism
“Offers a line of thinking that connects disparate thinkers ranging from
Proudhon to Simondon to Nietzsche to Deleuze… What emerges is a radical
challenge to the insistence on dialectic resolution, to occult left
teleologies, and to the certainty that past anarchists have nothing to
say to contemporary anarchists.” – James Martel, author of The
Misinterpellated Subject
Bio: Daniel Colson is a professor of sociology at the Université de
St.-Étienne in Lyon. He is the author of Trois Essais de Philosophie
Anarchiste: Islam, Histoire, Monadologie (2004) as well as several
studies of French labor history.
Jesse Cohn is an associate professor of English at Purdue University
Northwest. He is the author of Anarchism and the Crisis of
Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics (2006) and
Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848–2011 (2014).
PDF available freely online: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=902
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Release to the book trade April 2019
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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of
everyday life.
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