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The turn of the Millennium demonstrated a fully-fledged revival and
fusion of various left-wing social movements with differing
agendas. Movements for women's, black, indigenous, LGTB and animal
liberation as well as ecological, anti-nuclear and anti-war groups
unified against the global capital. Considering the diverse
emphases of these movements, is there a philosophical framework
that could help us understand their nature and their modes of
operation in the 21st century? This book provides a set of
conceptual tools offering a theoretical model of 'slow' social
transformation, a modality of social change that explicitly differs
from the irruptive model of a revolution or a paradigm-changing
event. Instead, it proposes the two concepts of mimetic contagion
and solidarity with singularity which allow us to understand what
is currently happening in the activist milieu. By bringing together
some of today's most important thinkers, including Butler, Girard,
Badiou, and Sloterdijk this book suggests a philosophical lens to
look at the alternative living projects that contemporary left-wing
activists undertake in practice. At the heart of their projects lie
the pressing concerns that these contemporary philosophers
currently debate. Breaking from the conceptual apparatus of the
Marxian tradition, Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism instead takes
Hegelian concepts and feeds them through the thought of
contemporary theorists in order to form an original, productive,
and inclusive scaffold with which to understand today's world of
social and political movements.
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