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On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance

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Description for On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance Hardback. A brilliant overview of the history of theories of resistance from the origins of the idea to contemporary expressions of defiance. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 199 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
No word is more central to the contemporary political imagination and action than ‘resistance’. In its various manifestations - from the armed guerrilla to Gandhian mass pacifist protest, from Wikileaks and the Arab Spring to the global eruption and violent repression of the Occupy movement - concepts of resistance are becoming ubiquitous and urgent. In this book, Howard Caygill conducts the first ever systematic analysis of ‘resistance’: as a means of defying political oppression, in its relationship with military violence and its cultural representation. Beginning with the militaristic doctrine of Clausewitz and the evolution of a new ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472522580
SKU
V9781472522580
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About Howard Caygill
Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London, UK.

Reviews for On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance
There could not be a more timely moment for this book ... Acutely attuned to this context, which was unfolding as he wrote, the philosopher Howard Caygill offers a meditation on the history of resistance as idea and lived experience, a term which, as he states at the outset, is "strangely unanalysed" ... the book is wholly inspired by the ... Read more

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