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The Spirit of Revolution - Beyond the Dead Ends of Man (Paperback)
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The Spirit of Revolution - Beyond the Dead Ends of Man (Paperback)
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Loot Price R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
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In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively
disavowed both the human and revolutionary politics. In the face of
massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to
reconsider fundamentally the superiority and centrality of mankind
and the human, and question how Man can presume to change the world
by revolutionary action, particularly when Marx s dreams seem to
have been swept into the dustbin of history. This provocative book
reaffirms what is most basic in feminism the attack on the
universality and sovereignty of Man but contends that the only way
this can mean anything other than pessimistic rhetoric is to
embrace human agency and the struggle against colonialism and
capitalism. In a series of creolized readings Foucault with Ali
Shari ati, Lacan with Fanon, and Spinoza with Sylvia Wynter the
authors demonstrate what is at stake in the ongoing debate between
humanism and posthumanism, putting this debate in the context of
contemporary global crises and the possibilities of revolution. In
its defense of political spirituality, this book pushes for a new
trajectory in response to the gross inequalities of today, one that
offers us a very different view of revolution and its present-day
potential.
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