Anarchy-In a Manner of Speaking

Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0226-9
Verlag: Diaphanes Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 118 mm x 183 mm, Gewicht: 217 g

Reihe: Anarchies

David Graeber’s influential thinking was always at odds with the liberal and left-wing mainstream. Drawing on his huge theoretical and practical experience as an ethnologist and anthropologist, activist and anarchist, Graeber and his interlocutors develop a ramified genealogy of anarchist thought and possible perspectives for 21st-century politics.

Diverging from the familiar lines of historical anarchism, and against the background of movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Gilets jaunes, the aim is to provide new political impulses that go beyond the usual schemata of unavoidableness. The spontaneous and swift-moving polylogue shows Graeber as a spirited, unorthodox thinker and radical activist for whom the group can always achieve more than the individual.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graeber, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Anarchismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

7	-	11	Foreword: A dialogue that doesn’t cover up its traces	(David Graeber)
12	-	27	Introduction to anarchy—all the things it is not	(David Graeber)
27	-	34	Reins on the imagination—the illusion of impossibility	(David Graeber)
34	-	38	Revolutions in common sense	(David Graeber)
38	-	44	Feminist ethics in anarchy—working with incommensurable perspectives	(David Graeber)
45	-	49	The three characteristics of statehood and their independence (two for us, one for the cosmos)	(David Graeber)
49	-	52	America 1—not a democracy, never meant to be	(David Graeber)
53	-	65	America 2—the indigenous critique & freedom works fine but it’s a terrible idea & ...	(David Graeber)
65	-	73	With great responsibility comes precarious tongue-tied intellectuals	(David Graeber)
73	-	78	Anthropology as art	(David Graeber)
78	-	80	Anthropology and economics	(David Graeber)
80	-	84	Freedom 1—which finite resources?	(David Graeber)
84	-	91	Freedom 2—property and Kant’s chiasmic structure of freedom	(David Graeber)
92	-	98	Freedom 3—friendship, play and quantification	(David Graeber)
98	-	104	Freedom 4—critical realism, emergent levels of freedom	(David Graeber)
105	-	111	Freedom 5—negotiating the rules of the game	(David Graeber)
112	-	120	Play fascism	(David Graeber)
120	-	131	Leave, disobey, reshuffle	(David Graeber)
131	-	139	Great man theory and historical necessity	(David Graeber)
139	-	148	Theories of desire	(David Graeber)
148	-	150	Graeber reads MBK and proposes a three-way dialectic that ends in care	(David Graeber)
150	-	156	Art and atrocity	(David Graeber)
157	-	161	Vampires, cults, hippies	(David Graeber)
161	-	169	Utopia	(David Graeber)
169	-	184	Rules of engagement	(David Graeber)
185	-	186	Dual sovereignty	(David Graeber)
187	-	191	Against the politics of opinion	(David Graeber)
191	-	197	The world upside down (and the mind always upward)	(David Graeber)
197	-	204	God as transgression and anarchy as God	(David Graeber)

Über Autor(innen)

Graeber, David
David Graeber (1961–2020) war Ethnologe, Anarchist, politischer Aktivist, Autor zahlreicher Bücher und Vordenker der Occupy-Bewegung. Bis 2007 lehrte David Graeber Ethnologie an der Yale University, später am Goldsmiths College der University of London und zuletzt an der London School of Economics.