Considering solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of political philosophy and biology, made more urgent by the COVID-19 crisis, this book is grounded in the work of Catherine Malabou and takes her theories in creative new directions.
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The concept of mutual aid is central to the anarchist tradition, but also a source of controversy. This book’s intervention is to consider solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of politics and biology, developing out of the work of Catherine Malabou.
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Chapter 1 Unchaining Solidarity, Mutual Aid and Anarchism – Dan Swain, Petr Urban, Catherine Malabou, and Petr KoubaChapter 2 Politics of Plasticity: Cooperation without Chains – Catherine MalabouPart I ‘An Internal Principle of Cooperation, Assistance and Repair’ - Solidarity and PlasticityChapter 3 Solidarity as Necessity: Subject, Structure, Practices – Thomas TeliosChapter 4 What Prevents Mutual Aid? On Trauma and Destructive Plasticity – Petr KoubaChapter 5 The Dynamics of Plasticity: Absolute Knowing and Sympoiesis – Rasmus Sandnes HaukedalChapter 6 Ethics of the Care for the Brain: Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou, and Foucault – Tim Elmo FeitenChapter 7Individuation and Anarchy in Gilbert Simondon and Catherine Malabou – Arianne ContyPart II‘The War of Each Against All Is Not the Law of Nature’ - Mutual Aid, Anarchism and Evolutionary BiologyChapter 8 The Anarchist Impulse: A Factor of Human and Non-Human Nature - Gearóid Brinn & Georgina ButterfieldChapter 9 Mutual Aid Armature: Plasticity All the Way Down – Eugene KuchinovChapter10 Solidarity Is Not Reciprocal Altruism – Jonas Faria CostaChapter 11 Selfish Genes, Evil Nature: The Christian Echoes in Neo-Atheism – Ole Martin SandbergPart III ‘At the End of the Day, It’s Just Us’ - The Actuality of Mutual AidChapter 12 Plastic Encounters: COVID-19 and (De)Racialization in Canada – Jade Crimson Rose Da CostaChapter 13 Counterpublics of the Common: Feminist Solidarity Unchained – Ewa MajewskaChapter 14 Prefigurative Biology: Mutual Aid, Social Reproduction and Plasticity – Dan Swain
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Unchaining Solidarity composes a bracing study of anarchist social forms to reveal their capacity to unleash the protean, emancipatory powers of the commons in singular figurations of non-reciprocity. Voicing variations on Catherine Malabou's opening invocation of a "politics of plasticity," its essays deploy a powerfully conceived political and conceptual force as they range freely across the contemporary forms of anarchist solidarity, from neuroplasticity and new materialism to Covid and feminist solidarity.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781538157978
Publisert
2024-04-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
422 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
151 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Biographical note

Dan Swain is research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and assistant professor at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. He is the author of None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx’s Ethics of Self-Emancipation and Alienation: An Introduction to Marx’s Theory which was nominated for the Bread and Roses prize for radical publishing.

Petr Urban is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. He is the author of several books and co-editor of Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State.

Catherine Malabou is professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, at the European Graduate School, and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine, a position formerly held by Jacques Derrida. She is the author of many books, including The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, and Dialectic and Morphing Intelligence, from IQ to IA.

Petr Kouba is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. His publications include Margins of Phenomenology and The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder: Perspectives of Heidegger's Thought in Psychopathology.