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Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
New York: Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern
politics. It is instantiated by sites of both hope and horror.
Within progressive thought, "revolution" often perpetuates
entrenched philosophical problems: a teleological philosophy of
history, economic reductionism, and normative paternalism. At a
time of resurgent uprisings, how can revolution be reconceptualized
to grasp the dynamics of social transformation and disentangle
revolutionary practice from authoritarian usurpation? Eva von
Redecker reconsiders critical theory's understanding of radical
change in order to offer a bold new account of how revolution
occurs. She argues that revolutions are not singular events but
extended processes: beginning from the interstices of society, they
succeed by gradually rearticulating social structures toward a new
paradigm. Developing a theoretical account of social
transformation, Praxis and Revolution incorporates a wide
range of insights, from the Frankfurt School to queer theory and
intersectionality. Its revised materialism furnishes prefigurative
politics with their social conditions and performative critique
with its collective force. Von Redecker revisits the French
Revolution to show how change arises from struggle in everyday
social practice. She illustrates the argument through rich literary
examples-a ménage à trois inside a prison, a radical knitting
circle, a queer affinity group, and petitioners pleading with the
executioner-that forge a feminist, open-ended model of revolution.
Praxis and Revolution urges readers not only to understand
revolutions differently but also to situate them elsewhere: in
collective contexts that aim to storm manifold Bastilles-but from
within.