From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power

by Saul Newman

Book Overview

In its comparison of anarchist and poststructuralist thought, From Bakunin to Lacan contends that the most pressing political problem we face today is the proliferation and intensification of power. Saul Newman targets the tendency of radical political theories and movements to reaffirm power and authority, in different guises, in their very attempt to overcome it. In his examination of thinkers such as Bakunin, Lacan, Stirner, and Foucault...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739102400
• ISBN13: 9780739102404
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"