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The Right to Resist - Philosophies of Dissent (Hardcover)
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The Right to Resist - Philosophies of Dissent (Hardcover)
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While the idea of total revolution seems anachronistic today, there
is increasing consensus about the importance of new forms of
political, ethical, and aesthetic resistance. In the past,
resistance was often motivated as a form of protest against
specific institutions. Increasingly, dissent has become integrated
into the fabric of modern life. This volume addresses new forms of
resistance at a level that combines a rootedness in the
philosophical tradition and a sensitivity to rethinking the
possibility of emancipation in today's age. The work focuses on
contemporary social and political philosophy from a perspective
informed by critical theory. The text specifically addresses three
challenges. (1) Critical theorists need to investigate in which
ways resistance, conformism, and oppression oppose and constitute
each other. (2) The relationship between the theory and the
practice of resistance needs to be posed anew, given recent protest
movements and media of protest. (3) It needs to be shown in which
ways different areas of society such as the arts, religion and
social media establish divergent practices of resistance. The
chapters are written by scholars from Asia, Europe and North
America. These experts in resistance discourse focus on practices
of dissent ranging from traditional forms of civil disobedience, to
more recent practices such as guerrilla protest, art, and
resistance in digital networks, including social media. What unites
them is a shared concern for the dimensions of political acts of
resistance in an age that is characterized by a tendency to
integrate and thereby neutralize those very acts.
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