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Book SynopsisWhile the idea of total revolution seems anachronistic today, there is increasing consensus about the importance of new forms of political, ethical, and aesthetic resistance. In the past, resistance was often motivated as a form of protest against specific institutions. Increasingly, dissent has become integrated into the fabric of modern life. This volume addresses new forms of resistance at a level that combines a rootedness in the philosophical tradition and a sensitivity to rethinking the possibility of emancipation in today's age. The work focuses on contemporary social and political philosophy from a perspective informed by critical theory. The text specifically addresses three challenges. (1) Critical theorists need to investigate in which ways resistance, conformism, and oppression oppose and constitute each other. (2) The relationship between the theory and the practice of resistance needs to be posed anew, given recent protest movements and media of protest. (3) It needs to b
Trade ReviewWhat counts as resistance and when resistance is justified remain strongly contested questions. This volume seeks to bring clarity to the debate by providing a very welcome expansion of the theoretical focus beyond narrowly defensive notions of resistance and beyond the Global North. * Robin Celikates, Professor of Social Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany *
Are there rights and obligations to resist and even revolt against oppressive regimes and hegemonic social orders? What tactics can best promote social change? Drawing on a diverse array of sources from Continental and Intercultural philosophy and social theory, the twelve timely essays in this engaging volume offer provocative analyses and innovative strategies for addressing these and related questions in our contemporary situation. * Eric S. Nelson, Professor of Philosophy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong *
This new volume sparkles with insight as a dozen scholars think about the meaning of resistance, contestation and revolt in our troubled present. Anyone seeking to understand how global modernity can provide us with new utopias and visions of a shared future should start here. * Kai Marchal, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National Chengchi University, Taiwan *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction, Thomas Byrne (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Mario Wenning (University of Macau, China) Part 1. Justifications for resistance 1. Kantian Conditions for the Possibility of Justified Resistance to Authority (Stephen R. Palmquist, Hong kong Baptist Church, China) 2. Justifying Resistance (Christian Schmidt, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) 3. Beyond Morality: On the Relation of Indifference and Resistance (Philip Hogh, Florida Atlantic University, USA) Part 2. Resistance, Revolution and Social Change 4. On the Temporal Structure of Resistant Practices: A Hermeneutical Proposal (Stefan Deines, Frankfurt University, Germany) 5. Resistance and Social Transformation in Walter Benjamin’s “On the Critique of Violence” (Alexei Procyshyn, Sun Yat-sen University Zhuha, China) 6. Passive Resistance: A Daoist Approach (Mario Wenning, University of Macau, China) 7. Resistance through Transformation: Spiritual Practices as a Pedagogy of Unlearning and Becoming (Jinting Wu, State University of New York, USA) Part 3. Resistance in the Media, the Arts and Religion 8. Network Resistance in China (Shih-Diing Liu and Lin Song, University of Macau, China) 9. "Probability and Reality Do Not Always Coincide": Uncanny Modernity in Kleist’s
Michael Kohlhaas (Louis Lo, National Tapei University, Taiwan) 10. Resistance in the Mysticism of Kabir and Jaspers (Amita Valmiki, University of Mumbai, India) 11. On Dissent Against Lockdowns: Phenomenology and Public Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Thomas Byrne and Tarun Kattumana, KU Leuven, Belgium) Notes on Contributors
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