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Book SynopsisThe Militant Intellect offers a way of rethinking the relationship between critical theory and politics. How does critical theory become self-conscious of its own relation to politics? How does it contribute to change the world through its reinterpretation of it? These are some of the questions that drive The Militant Intellect. In this book Andrés Fabián Henao Castro argues that critical theory cultivates the militancy of the general intellect by training that intellect to work towards the intersectional and structural death of the colonist and thus to envision at the same time the materialization of that feminist decolonial communist queer marronage world that constitutes its horizon. Henao Castro borrows and expands on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s idea of conceptual persona to qualify the intellectual labor of critical theory as an undisciplined field, that performs its labor through the creation of conceptual personae capable of subjectivizing critical thought. Doing so, The Militant Intellect argues for the indispensable reinterpretation of Plato’s Philosopher Sovereign, Karl Marx’s Communist, Frantz Fanon’s Rebel, Jacques Derrida’s Specter, Gayatri Spivak’s Subaltern, Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Life, Jacques Rancière’s Ignorant Schoolmaster, Judith Butler’s Antigone/Ismene, and Jordy Rosenberg’s Fox as compelling personifications of intellectual militancy for the general intellect to have new scripts capable of cultivating the virtuosity of its more revolutionary performances.
Table of ContentsDedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Militant Intellect
Part I: Revolution
Chapter 1. The Just Militant: Plato’s Philosopher Sovereign
Chapter 2. The Critical Militant: Karl Marx’s Communist
Chapter 3. The Decolonial Militant: Frantz Fanon’s Rebel
Part II: Difference
Chapter 4. The Deconstructive Militant: Jacques Derrida’s Specter
Chapter 5. The Feminist Militant: Gayatri Spivak’s Subaltern
Chapter 6. The Fugitive Militant: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Life
Part III: Universality
Chapter 7. The Egalitarian Militant: Jacques Rancière’s Ignorant Schoolmaster
Chapter 8. The Nonviolent Grieving Militant: Judith Butler’s Antigone/Ismene
Chapter 9. The Desirous Militant: Jordy Rosenberg’s Fox
Epilogue: Militants and/as Comrades
Notes
Bibliography
Index
