The Problems of Resistance: Studies in Alternate Political Cultures (Radical Philosophy Today) - Softcover

Martinot, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573929123 ISBN 13: 9781573929127

Publisher: Prometheus Books, 2001

Synopsis

This volume seeks to bring into focus some of the main dimensions of political hegemony, including judicial repression, state terror, the structures of racialization, discrimination, and colonization. Against these, it then offers open-ended views of many different levels of resistance, from mass struggles and problems of national liberation to alternate ways of living one's intimate life within the community. The role of imagination, ideology, and critique in organizational activity, the problem of absorption by the hierarchy one resists, and modes of regeneration of political energies are all brought together as dimensions of cultures of resistance.

The essays here collected do not offer solutions but raise questions within four main themes: domination, cultural formation, reification, and transformation. Ultimately, the various perspectives are based on the concept that autonomy is the fundamental building block of democracy. The different issues involved are viewed as moments on a common political trajectory leading toward the liberation of the human spirit from repressive social and cultural forces.

Taken as a whole, these outstanding essays broaden our understanding of liberation and provide an excellent resource for philosophers and activists alike.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Martinot (San Francisco, CA) is an instructor in the Department of Humanities at San Francisco State University.
Joy James (Providence, RI) is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Brown University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1573929123
• ISBN 13: 9781573929127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292