Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The recent emergence of a 'postanarchist' discourse raises the question of how anarchism relates not only to 'postmodernity' but to 'modernity' itself.While anarchism is a product of and heir to a still-contested Enlightenment legacy, it cannot be reduced to a simplistic repetition of modernity's inaugural themes.Conversely, postmodern theory fails to make important distinctions in conceptualizing power, subjectivity, identity, and values, depriving us of resources for thinking collective action and revolutionary transformation.* Eduardo Colombo, born in Buenos Aires and living in Paris, is a psychoanalyst affiliated with the Quatrième Groupe, an association formed by breakaway participants in Jacques Lacan's École Freudienne (including Cornelius Castoriadis).A longtime activist who has worked in the French CNT and the FORA, Colombo is author of La volonté du peuple: Démocratie et anarchie (Éditions Libertaires, 2007) and L'Espace politique de l'anarchie: Esquisses pour une philosophie politique de l'anarchisme (Atelier de Création Libertaire, 2008) as well as many publications on psychoanalytic theory and practice.* Jesse Cohn teaches courses in American fiction, literary theory, and popular culture at Purdue University North Central in Indiana.
Authors: E. Colombo, Jesse Cohn
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2201330469