
Building Free Life
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From Socrates to Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned philosophers have marked the history of thought and changed how we view power and politics. From his solitary jail cell, Abdullah Öcalan has penned daringly innovative works that give profuse evidence of his position as one of the most significant thinkers of our day. His prison writings have mobilized tens of thousands of people and inspired a revolution in the making in Rojava, northern Syria, while also penetrating the insular walls of academia and triggering debate and reflection among countless scholars.
So how do you engage in a meaningful dialogue with Abdullah Öcalan when he has been held in total isolation since April 2015? You compile a book of essays written by a globally diverse cast of the most imaginative luminaries of our time, send it to Öcalan's jailers, and hope that they deliver it to him.
Featured in this extraordinary volume are over a dozen writers, activists, dreamers, and scholars whose ideas have been investigated in Öcalan's own writings. Now these same people have the unique opportunity to enter into a dialogue with his ideas. Building Free Life is a rich and wholly original exploration of the most critical issues facing humanity today. In the broad sweep of this one-of-a-kind dialogue, the contributors explore topics ranging from democratic confederalism to women's revolution, from the philosophy of history to the crisis of the capitalist system, from religion to Marxism and anarchism, all in an effort to better understand the liberatory social forms that are boldly confronting capitalism and the state.
There can be no boundaries or restrictions for the development of thought. Thus, in the midst of different realities-from closed prisons to open-air prisons-the human mind will find a way to seek the truth. Building Free Life stands as a monument of radical thought, a testament of resilience, and a searchlight illuminating the impulse for freedom.
Contributors include: Shannon Brincat, Radha D'Souza, Mechthild Exo, Damian Gerber, Barry K. Gills, Muriel González Athenas, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic, John Holloway, Patrick Huff, Donald H. Matthews, Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Antonio Negri, Norman Paech, Ekkehard Sauermann, Fabian Scheidler, Nazan Üstündag, Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Raúl Zibechi.
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- Cover
- Half title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction by International Initiative
- One: Jumping on the Bus by John Holloway
- Two: Öcalan, European Law, and the Kurdish Question by Norman Paech
- Three: A Grand and Comprehensive Dialogue by Ekkehard Sauermann
- Four: Preface to The Road Map by Immanuel Wallerstein
- Five: Prologue to Abdullah Öcalan's The Road Map to Negotiations by Arnaldo Otegi
- Six: From World System to Democratic Civilization by Barry K. Gills
- Seven: "A Prisoner Who Is Becoming Mythical" by Antonio Negri
- Eight: Abdullah Öcalan by Peter Lamborn Wilson
- Nine: Öcalan's Manifesto and the Challenge of Transcending Centricity by Donald H. Matthews and Thomas Jeffrey Miley
- Ten: Historiography, Gender, and Resistance by Muriel González Athenas
- Eleven: Reading Öcalan as a South Asian Woman by Radha D'Souza
- Twelve: "There Can Be No Utopia or Reality That Is More Ambitious Than This": The Democratic Modernism of Svetozar Markovic and Abdullah Öcalan by Andrej Grubacic
- Thirteen: Imaginary Dialogues with Öcalan: Updating Critical Thinking by Raúl Zibechi
- Fourteen: Making Connections: Jineolojî, Women's Liberation, and Building Peace by Mechthild Exo
- Fifteen: Öcalan as Thinker: On the Unity of Theory and Practice as Form of Writing by David Graeber
- Sixteen: Rojava or the Art of Transition in a Collapsing Civilization by Fabian Scheidler
- Seventeen: When Öcalan Met Bookchin: The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Political Theory of Democratic Confederalism by Damian Gerber and Shannon Brincat
- Eighteen: Re-enchantment of the Political: Abdullah Öcalan, Democratic Confederalism, and the Politics of Reasonableness by Patrick Huff
- Nineteen: The Theology of Democratic Modernity: Labor, Truth, and Freedom by Nazan Üstu¨ndag
- Twenty: Power and Truth: Analytics of Power and Nomadic Thought as Fragments of a Philosophy of Liberation by Michael Panser
- Afterword by Abdullah Öcalan
- Index
- Publications by Abdullah Öcalan in English
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