Abstract
In this paper I conduct a close reading of Emma Goldman’s essay “Minorities versus Majorities,” published in her book Anarchism and Other Essays, taking methodological cues from the work of semiotician Algirdas Julien Greimas. Specifically, I construct semiotic squares to expose traces of Goldman’s thoughts on the possibility of moving beyond the dichotomy of the essay’s title. In conducting this reading, I aim to illuminate the Nietzschean influence that resonates throughout the essay (and which Goldman herself acknowledges), and to complicate the frequent criticisms that this influence entails a complete denial of the possibility of collective emancipatory action in favour of a radical individualism. [Article copies available for a fee from The Transformative Studies Institute. E-mail address: journal@transformativestudies.org Website: http://www.transformativestudies.org ©2011 by The Transformative Studies Institute. All rights reserved.]
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