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On Resistance - A Philosophy of Defiance (Paperback)
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On Resistance - A Philosophy of Defiance (Paperback)
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No word is more central to the contemporary political imagination
and action than 'resistance'. In its various manifestations - from
the armed guerrilla to Gandhian mass pacifist protest, from
Wikileaks and the Arab Spring to the global eruption and violent
repression of the Occupy movement - concepts of resistance are
becoming ubiquitous and urgent. In this book, Howard Caygill
conducts the first ever systematic analysis of 'resistance' as a
means of defying political oppression, in its relationship with
military violence and its cultural representation. Beginning with
the militaristic doctrine of Clausewitz and the evolution of a new
model of guerrilla warfare to resist the forces of Napoleonic
France, "On Resistance" elucidates and critiques the contributions
of seminal resistant thinkers from Marx and Nietzsche to Mao,
Gandhi, Sartre and Fanon to identify continuities of resistance and
rebellion from the Paris Commune to the Greenham Women's Peace
Camp. Employing a threefold line of inquiry, Caygill exposes the
persistent discourses through which resistance has been framed in
terms of force, violence, consciousness and subjectivity to evolve
a critique of resistance. Tracing the features of resistance, its
strategies, character and habitual forms throughout modern world
history Caygill identifies the typological consistencies which make
up resistance. Finally, by teasing out the conceptual nuances of
resistance and its affinities to concepts of repression, reform and
revolution, Caygill reflects upon contemporary manifestations of
resistance to identify whether the 21st century is evolving new
understandings of protest and struggle.
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