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Anarchist Prophets - Disappointing Vision and the Power of Collective Sight (Paperback)
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Anarchist Prophets - Disappointing Vision and the Power of Collective Sight (Paperback)
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In Anarchist Prophets James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with
what he calls archism in order to theorize the potential for a
radical democratic politics. He shows how archism-a centralized and
hierarchical political form that is a secularization of ancient
Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions-dominates contemporary
politics through a prophet's promises of peace and prosperity or
the threat of violence. Archism is met by anarchism, in which a
community shares a collective form of judgment and vision. Martel
focuses on the figure of the anarchist prophet, who leads efforts
to regain the authority for the community that archism has stolen.
The goal of anarchist prophets is to render themselves obsolete and
to cede power back to the collective so as to not become archist
themselves. Martel locates anarchist prophets in a range of
philosophical, literary, and historical examples, from Hobbes and
Nietzsche to Mary Shelley and Octavia Butler to Kurdish resistance
in Syria and the Spanish Revolution. In so doing, Martel highlights
how anarchist forms of collective vision and action can provide the
means to overthrow archist authority.
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