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Anarchism And Poststructuralist Value Neutral. Filed Under: Term Papers. 5 pages, 2370 words. For some, anarchism is portrayed as being congruent with the philosophy of post-structuralism. It is claimed that the post-structuralist’ celebration of difference with its anti-authoritarian impulse, it’s rejection of top-down power in favour of localised bottom-up resistance and its rejection.
The poststructuralist approach, however, eschews two questionable assumptions of anarchism, that human beings have an (essentially benign) essence and that power is always repressive, never productive. After positioning poststructuralist political thought against the background of Marxism and the traditional anarchism of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon, Todd May shows what a tactical.
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In 1994 Todd May initiated a new turn in contemporary theory — poststructuralist anarchism, commonly abbreviated to “post-anarchism.” May’s seminal study, The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism called attention to ways in which the political philosophy of anarchism echoes the concerns of poststructuralist thought, notably in its critique of oppression. Taking aim at.
Todd Mayinterviewed by Richard Marshall. Todd May is the poststructuralist anarchist who thinks anarchism is more than just a critique of the state, that there is more than one struggle, that Foucault, Deleuze and Lyotard are important, that postructuralism is elusive, that anarchism is bottom-up and liberalism is top-down, that 'how might one live?' is the down and dirty question, that.
Author of Operation Defensive Shield, The moral theory of poststructuralism, Philosophy of Foucault, The political philosophy of poststructuralist anarchism, Reconsidering difference, Between genealogy and epistemology, The philosophy of Foucault, Friendship in an age of economics.
Todd May proposes to unify two movements (more accurately, strands of two movements), namely, poststructuralism and anarchism. Poststructuralism, for May, is in need of a framework in order to articulate its politics, and anarchism's commitments to humanism and its views of power as strictly negative and repressive are long overdue; thus, the marriage of poststructuralism and anarchism.