The Ethics of Political Resistance: Althusser, Badiou, Deleuze

Chris Henry

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

The Ethics of Political Resistance

Althusser, Badiou, Deleuze

Chris Henry

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474447768

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A new ontology that forms the groundwork for ethical practices of resistance

What and how should individuals resist in political situations? While these questions recur regularly within Western political philosophy, answers to them have often relied on dogmatically held ideals, such as the distinction between truth and doxa or the privilege of thought over sense. In particular, the strain of idealist political philosophy, inaugurated by Plato and finding contemporary expression in the work of Alain Badiou, employs dualities that reduce the complexities of practices of resistance to concepts of commitment.

Chris Henry brings together the work of Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze in order to offer a new idea of political practice He develops a structural ontology that gives rise to non-idealist, non-dogmatic, yet ethical practices of resistance against the return of classical ontological dualities.

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Brings together the work of Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze in order to offer a new idea of political practice
Develops a structural ontology that gives rise to non-idealist, non-dogmatic and yet ethical practices of resistance against the return of classical ontological dualities
Contributes to the 'ontological turn', problematising tacit assumptions in the literature such as to be/to not be, the unity of the faculties of understanding, and a formal distinction between epistemology and ontology
Closely reads Badiou's metaphysics and critiques his concepts of two Platonic and one Parmenidean dyads
Highlights the importance of time in Althusser's work
Reads Deleuze through unlikely, yet important, encounters with Mill and Althusser

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Badiou: Being and Failure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Chapter 2 Contra Axiomatics: The Persistence of Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter 3 A Time for Practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
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Conclusion: The Art of Practical Resistance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474447768