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Anarchist Prophets

Anarchist Prophets


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In Anarchist Prophets James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics. He shows how archism--a centralized and hierarchical political form that is a secularization of ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions--dominates contemporary politics through a prophet's promises of peace and prosperity or the threat of violence. Archism is met by anarchism, in which a community shares a collective form of judgment and vision. Martel focuses on the figure of the anarchist prophet, who leads efforts to regain the authority for the community that archism had stolen. The anarchist prophet's goal is to render themselves obsolete and to cede power back to the collective so as to not become archist herself. Martel locates anarchist prophets in a range of philosophical, literary, and historical examples, from Hobbes and Nietzsche to Mary Shelley and Octavia Butler to Kurdish resistance in Syria and the Spanish revolution. In so doing, Martel highlights how anarchist forms of collective vision and action can provide the means to overthrow archist authority.
About the Author: James R. Martel is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University and the author of The Misinterpellated Subject, also published by Duke University Press, and most recently, Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781478015789
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1478015780
  • Publisher Date: 12 Aug 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 657 gr


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