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Freedom in common: later struggles and anxieties
Authors: Kioupkiolis, Alexandros
Reviewer: Sevastakis, Nikolaos
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Chapter Eight examines the most contemporary thinking on agonistic freedom and political contestation over the past fifteen years, following the work of the thinkers discussed in the preceding chapters. A central concern that has emerged in this period involves the implications of radical antagonism for a politics of equal freedoms. How can we think about and manage conflicts of difference in conjunction with shared freedom? The chapter engages with agonistic pluralism, as developed in recent years by Chantal Mouffe and William Connolly, and with post-anarchism as articulated in the works of Richard Day and Uri Gordon. Drawing on Carl Schmitt, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault, Mouffe and Connolly delve deeply into the consequences of antagonism for a politics of equal freedoms. However, their form of agonism needs to be redefined along certain key axes. Among other limitations, they do not confront the state and capitalist constraints on equal freedom, nor do they contribute to the mobilization of the creative forces of autonomous action. Both of these shortcomings can be addressed with the aid of contemporary neo- or post-anarchist currents, which — unlike Mouffe's and Connolly's pluralism — draw on the legacy of historical anarchism and seek a rupture with political and capitalist power. Yet, these currents also move beyond classical anarchism and closer to agonistic pluralism, as they reject anarchism’s faith in a benevolent social essence of humanity and abandon the ideal of a harmonious community (Day, 2005; Newman, 2007; May, 1994; Gordon, 2008; Tormey, 2005). Moreover, post-anarchists advance a politics of realized radical desire that activates the emancipatory forces of creativity — thereby exceeding the conservative horizons of pluralism found in Mouffe’s and Connolly’s frameworks.
Graphic Editors: Bozionelos, Gavriil
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4818
Bibliographic Reference: Kioupkiolis, A. (2015). Freedom in common: later struggles and anxieties [Chapter]. In Kioupkiolis, A. 2015. Philosophies of freedom [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/4818
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Philosophies of freedom
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions