Anarchist Modernity

Author : Sho Konishi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175314

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Anarchist Modernity by Sho Konishi Pdf

"Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress. Acting outside imperial encounters, they initiated underground transnational networks with Japan. Prominent intellectuals and cultural figures, from Peter Kropotkin and Lev Tolstoy to Saigo Takamori and Tokutomi Roka, pursued these unofficial relationships through correspondence, travel, and networking, despite diplomatic and military conflicts between their respective nations.Tracing these non-state networks, Anarchist Modernity uncovers a major current in Japanese intellectual and cultural life between 1860 and 1930 that might be described as “cooperatist anarchist modernity”—a commitment to realizing a modern society through mutual aid and voluntary activity, without the intervention of state governance. These efforts later crystallized into such movements as the Nonwar Movement, Esperantism, and the popularization of the natural sciences.Examining cooperatist anarchism as an intellectual foundation of modern Japan, Sho Konishi offers a new approach to Japanese history that fundamentally challenges the “logic” of Western modernity. It looks beyond this foundational construct of modern history writing to understand people, practices, and cultural expressions that have been forgotten or dismissed as products of anti-modern nativist counter urges against the West."

Author : Allan Antliff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226021033

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Reveals that during the World War I era modernists participated in a wide-ranging anarchist movement that encompassed lifestyles, literature, and art, as well as politics.

Author : Nathan Jun
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441166869

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Anarchism and Political Modernity by Nathan Jun Pdf

Anarchism and Political Modernity looks at the place of “classical anarchism” in the postmodern political discourse, claiming that anarchism presents a vision of political postmodernity. The book seeks to foster a better understanding of why and how anarchism is growing in the present. To do so, it first looks at its origins and history, offering a different view from the two traditions that characterize modern political theory: socialism and liberalism. Such an examination leads to a better understanding of how anarchism connects with newer political trends and why it is a powerful force in contemporary social and political movements. This new volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series offers a novel philosophical engagement with anarchism and contests a number of positions established in postanarchist theory. Its new approach makes a valuable contribution to an established debate about anarchism and political theory. It offers a new perspective on the emerging area of anarchist studies that will be of interest to students and theorists in political theory and anarchist studies.

Author : Nathan Jun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441162342

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Anarchism and Political Modernity by Nathan Jun Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Anarchism and Political Modernity looks at the place of 'classical anarchism' in the postmodern political discourse, claiming that anarchism presents a vision of political postmodernity. The book seeks to foster a better understanding of why and how anarchism is growing in the present. To do so, it first looks at its origins and history, offering a different view from the two traditions that characterize modern political theory: socialism and liberalism. Such an examination leads to a better understanding of how anarchism connects with newer political trends and why it is a powerful force in contemporary social and political movements. This new volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series offers a novel philosophical engagement with anarchism and contests a number of positions established in postanarchist theory. Its new approach makes a valuable contribution to an established debate about anarchism and political theory. It offers a new perspective on the emerging area of anarchist studies that will be of interest to students and theorists in political theory and anarchist studies.

Author : Elisée Reclus
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 0739108050

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Anarchy, Geography, Modernity by Elisée Reclus Pdf

In Anarchy, Geography, Modernity, authors John P. Clark and Camille Martin provide an extensive analysis of Reclus' social thought and offer a comprehensive view of Reclus' life and work, including his contributions to social geology and anarchist and libertarian theory. Through a masterful translation of his work, Clark and Martin construct an appreciation for Reclus' contribution to social thought and modernist ideals of human freedom.

Author : Allan Antliff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226021041

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Anarchist Modernism by Allan Antliff Pdf

Reveals that during the World War I era modernists participated in a wide-ranging anarchist movement that encompassed lifestyles, literature, and art, as well as politics.

Author : Nathan J. Jun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : LCCN:2020719430

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Anarchism and Political Modernity by Nathan J. Jun Pdf

Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1571818677

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Futurism and Politics by Günter Berghaus Pdf

On futurism and fascism in Italy

Author : David Kadlec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049728176

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Mosaic Modernism by David Kadlec Pdf

David Kadlec examines the anarchist and pragmatist origins of modernism as a literary/cultural phenomenon. Offering an account of modernism's political genesis, he shows that the mosaic, improvisational tendencies of modern literature shared a common ancestry with emerging conceptions of cultural identity.

Author : Cord-Christian Casper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110645873

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Against Anarchy by Cord-Christian Casper Pdf

'Against Anarchy' investigates the function of Anarchism in Early Modernist political fiction. The study explains how political novels from 1886 to 1911 narrate and evaluate the function of Anarchists as embodiments of a radical space beyond politics. The literary prevalence of Anarchists has so far not been connected systematically to its literary and political functions. The study addresses this research gap in detailed analyses of a radical theme in narratives by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and G.K. Chesterton. It shows that each novel presents strategies of demarcation that allow turn-of-the-century Britain to project its cultural anxieties upon an imagined other, the dreaded figure labelled ‘Anarchist’. The political radical is set up as the foil against which comforting self-descriptions can be maintained. Rather than merely reproducing this boundary work, however, the novels also evaluate its function, both for the respective political system and for their own narrative capabilities — and present the consequences incurred by the loss of an anarchist outside. 'Against Anarchy' is a thorough cultural historiography of the politically other and marginal. At the same time, the study demonstrates that close attention to the specific literary image of Anarchism allows for a re-evaluation of political thought beyond its immediate historical moment — a literary political theory in its own right.

Author : Alex Prichard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136732737

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Justice, Order and Anarchy by Alex Prichard Pdf

This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary understandings of anarchy in International Relations. Although anarchy is arguably the core concept of the discipline of international relations, scholarship has largely ignored the insights of the first anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Proudhon's anarchism was a critique of the projects of national unification, universal dominion, republican statism and the providentialism at the heart of enlightenment social theory. While his break with the key tropes of modernity pushed him to the margins of political theory, Prichard links Proudhon back into the republican tradition of political thought from which his ideas emerged, and shows how his defence of anarchy was a critique of the totalising modernist projects of his contemporaries. Given that we are today moving beyond the very statist processes Proudhon objected to, his writings present an original take on how to institutionalise justice and order in our radically pluralised, anarchic international order. Rethinking the concept and understanding of anarchy, Justice, Order and Anarchy will be of interest to students and scholars of political philosophy, anarchism and international relations theory.

Author : Randall Amster,Abraham DeLeon,Luis Fernandez,Anthony J. Nocella, II,Deric Shannon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134026432

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Contemporary Anarchist Studies by Randall Amster,Abraham DeLeon,Luis Fernandez,Anthony J. Nocella, II,Deric Shannon Pdf

This book highlights the recent rise in interest in anarchist theory and practice attempting to bridge the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist studies in the academia. Bringing together some of the most prominent voices in contemporary anarchism in the academy, it includes pieces written on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the future.

Author : David Weir
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : UCSC:32106014597527

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Anarchy & Culture by David Weir Pdf

A masterful study of the hidden roots of contemporary culture and should b read by anyone interested in how and why our intellectual landscape has changed quite dramatically since the Victorian era.

Author : Elisée Reclus
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781604868982

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Anarchy, Geography, Modernity by Elisée Reclus Pdf

Anarchy, Geography, Modernity is the first comprehensive introduction to the thought of Elisée Reclus, the great anarchist geographer and political theorist. It shows him to be an extraordinary figure for his age. Not only an anarchist but also a radical feminist, anti-racist, ecologist, animal rights advocate, cultural radical, nudist, and vegetarian. Not only a major social thinker but also a dedicated revolutionary. The work analyzes Reclus’ greatest achievement, a sweeping historical and theoretical synthesis recounting the story of the earth and humanity as an epochal struggle between freedom and domination. It presents his groundbreaking critique of all forms of domination: not only capitalism, the state, and authoritarian religion, but also patriarchy, racism, technological domination, and the domination of nature. His crucial insights on the interrelation between personal and small-group transformation, broader cultural change, and large-scale social organization are explored. Reclus’ ideas are presented both through detailed exposition and analysis, and in extensive translations of key texts, most appearing in English for the first time.

Author : Justin Ritzinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190491178

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Anarchy in the Pure Land by Justin Ritzinger Pdf

Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind of concern for ritual, supernatural beings, and the afterlife that the reformers supposedly rejected in the name of "modernity." This book shows that, rather than a concession to tradition, the reimagining of ideas and practices associated with Maitreya was an important site for formulating a Buddhist vision of modernity. Justin Ritzinger argues that the cult of Maitreya represents an attempt to articulate a new constellation of values, integrating novel understandings of the good, clustered around modern visions of utopia, with the central Buddhist goal of Buddhahood. In Part One he traces the roots of this constellation to Taixu's youthful career as an anarchist. Part Two examines its articulation in the Maitreya School's theology and its social development from its inception to World War II. Part Three looks at its subsequent decline and contemporary legacy within and beyond orthodox Buddhism. Through these investigations, Anarchy in the Pure Land develops a new framework for alternative understandings of modernity in Buddhism.