Unchaining Solidarity
On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou
Published on 17. November 2021
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-5381-5795-4 (ISBN)
Description
Considering solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of political philosophy and biology, made more urgent by the COVID-19 crisis, this book is grounded in the work of Catherine Malabou and takes her theories in creative new directions.
Reviews / Votes
Unchaining Solidarity composes a bracing study of anarchist social forms to reveal their capacity to unleash the protean, emancipatory powers of the commons in singular figurations of non-reciprocity. Voicing variations on Catherine Malabou's opening invocation of a "politics of plasticity," its essays deploy a powerfully conceived political and conceptual force as they range freely across the contemporary forms of anarchist solidarity, from neuroplasticity and new materialism to Covid and feminist solidarity. -- Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University This collection of thoughtful reflections on solidarity takes off from its character and role in the "mutual aid" tradition of anarchism. Exploring ideas about how to make such solidarity concrete and accessible, it has much to offer activist philosophers concerned to re-appropriate the term. -- Bob Brecher, emeritus professor of moral philosophy, University of Brighton Let this stunning gathering of theorists surprise, puzzle, and entertain you: their work unchains altogether different mode of analysis, one that calls attention to the politics of mutual aid, solidarity, and care. -- Andrej Grubacic, professor of anthropology at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research, and the author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism, Wobblies and ZapatistasMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 b/w illustrations;
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-5795-4 (9781538157954)
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Dan Swain | Petr Urban | Catherine Malabou
Unchaining Solidarity
On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou
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11/2021
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Persons
Dan Swain is research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and assistant professor at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. He is the author of None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx's Ethics of Self-Emancipation and Alienation: An Introduction to Marx's Theory which was nominated for the Bread and Roses prize for radical publishing.
Petr Urban is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. He is the author of several books and co-editor of Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State.
Catherine Malabou is professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, at the European Graduate School, and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine, a position formerly held by Jacques Derrida. She is the author of many books, including The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic and Morphing Intelligence, from IQ to IA.
Petr Kouba is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. His publications include Margins of Phenomenology and The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder: Perspectives of Heidegger's Thought in Psychopathology.
Petr Urban is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. He is the author of several books and co-editor of Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State.
Catherine Malabou is professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, at the European Graduate School, and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine, a position formerly held by Jacques Derrida. She is the author of many books, including The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic and Morphing Intelligence, from IQ to IA.
Petr Kouba is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. His publications include Margins of Phenomenology and The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder: Perspectives of Heidegger's Thought in Psychopathology.
Content
Chapter 1 Unchaining Solidarity, Mutual Aid and Anarchism - Dan Swain, Petr Urban, Catherine Malabou, and Petr Kouba
Chapter 2 Politics of Plasticity: Cooperation without Chains - Catherine Malabou
Part I 'An Internal Principle of Cooperation, Assistance and Repair' - Solidarity and Plasticity
Chapter 3 Solidarity as Necessity: Subject, Structure, Practices - Thomas Telios
Chapter 4 What Prevents Mutual Aid? On Trauma and Destructive Plasticity - Petr Kouba
Chapter 5 The Dynamics of Plasticity: Absolute Knowing and Sympoiesis - Rasmus Sandnes Haukedal
Chapter 6 Ethics of the Care for the Brain: Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou, and Foucault - Tim Elmo Feiten
Chapter 7Individuation and Anarchy in Gilbert Simondon and Catherine Malabou - Arianne Conty
Part II 'The War of Each Against All Is Not the Law of Nature' - Mutual Aid, Anarchism and Evolutionary Biology
Chapter 8 The Anarchist Impulse: A Factor of Human and Non-Human Nature - Gearoid Brinn & Georgina Butterfield
Chapter 9 Mutual Aid Armat
Chapter 2 Politics of Plasticity: Cooperation without Chains - Catherine Malabou
Part I 'An Internal Principle of Cooperation, Assistance and Repair' - Solidarity and Plasticity
Chapter 3 Solidarity as Necessity: Subject, Structure, Practices - Thomas Telios
Chapter 4 What Prevents Mutual Aid? On Trauma and Destructive Plasticity - Petr Kouba
Chapter 5 The Dynamics of Plasticity: Absolute Knowing and Sympoiesis - Rasmus Sandnes Haukedal
Chapter 6 Ethics of the Care for the Brain: Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou, and Foucault - Tim Elmo Feiten
Chapter 7Individuation and Anarchy in Gilbert Simondon and Catherine Malabou - Arianne Conty
Part II 'The War of Each Against All Is Not the Law of Nature' - Mutual Aid, Anarchism and Evolutionary Biology
Chapter 8 The Anarchist Impulse: A Factor of Human and Non-Human Nature - Gearoid Brinn & Georgina Butterfield
Chapter 9 Mutual Aid Armat