Politics Of Anti-Politics Research Articles

Judges 19-21: The Disasters of the Community of Virtue

This paper is an ethical exegesis of the biblical story of Gibeah, which concludes the Book of Judges (19–21), to show the catastrophic failure of the anti-political politics of the “community of virtue”, i.e., the rejection of power for the sake of moral society, such as proposed by libertarians, neo-liberals, anarchists and utopians. I consider Kant’s statement of the political problem: given humanity’s unsocial sociality, where each person is tempted to act as an exception to universal law, humans need rulers, but how to obtain rulers who are not themselves ruled by power, and become tyrannical, rather than being ruled by justice? The solution proposed by “the community of virtue” would reject power altogether and replace it with society regulated exclusively according to the moral virtue of its members. The Bible’s story of Gibeah shows graphically and conclusively the failure of any such attempt. Instead, as with normative political philosophy, the Bible endorses the rule of a king, i.e., the rule of the state, and a politics whereby power is disciplined to serve justice because it is rooted in Torah, i.e., a fundamental covenant, charter or constitution, aware and vigilant regarding the ambiguities and temptations of sovereignty, and therefore, ideally, always open to critique. As exemplified by biblical prophets, political protest against injustices perpetrated by the powerful against the least—widow, orphan, stranger—is at once religious obligation and true patriotism.

Satire and Politics: The Interplay of Heritage and Practice

Satire and Politics: The Interplay of Heritage and Practice

The anarchy of living with negativity

The unanticipated affinities between Lee Edelman’s ‘politics of negativity’ and Saul Neman’s theorizations of an ‘anti-political politics’ of postanarchism allow a re-thinking of the import of queer antisocial projects for a queer politics where ‘anarchy’ and ‘queer’ combine. This paper explores a queer anti-political politics of negativity to destabilize the creativity–negativity debate, and to track the emergence of what I call an ‘anti-utopian utopianism’. As shown by the 2013 anti-government die-in performance of the Israeli queer anarchist group Mashpritzot, this (im)possible project casts the ‘no’ of negativity, anarchy and queer as non-essentialist grounds for a politics of difference that insists on the present of dissent as precondition for (its) survival.

Ideologia i praktyka polityczna Solidarności a tradycja republikańska

The ideology and political practise of Solidarity and republican tradition The paper argues that – regardless of neo-Marxist inspirations – many views of Václav Havel, Adam Michnik, or Jacek Kuroń on civil society bear a surprising resemblance to political philosophy of Aristotle or Cicero. This, in turn, makes it possible to argue that Havel’s concept of “anti-political politics” is not anti-political at all but to the contrary – political par excellence, if only one adopts a sourcing understanding of politics characteristic for classical republican tradition. Moreover, those republican traces are especially well-visible in both the structure and the way of operating of Polish Solidarity movement.

Postanarchism: a politics of anti-politics

This article outlines a politics of postanarchism, which is based on a radical renewal—via poststructuralist theory—of classical anarchism's critique of statism and authority and its political ethics of egalibertarianism. I contend that while many of the theoretical categories of classical anarchism continue to be relevant today—and indeed are becoming more relevant with the collapse of competing radical projects and what might be seen as a paradigm shift from the representative politics of the party and vanguard to that of movements and decentralized networks—its humanist and rationalist epistemological framework needs to be rethought in the light of poststructuralist and postmodern theories. Here I develop an alternative understanding of anarchism based on a non-essentialist politics of autonomy.

Economic orthodoxy and the East Asian crisis

It is increasingly apparent that the Asian economic crisis has also led to a serious ideological crisis in the West. Before the collapse there was broad agreement among Western orthodox economists that developing countries should pursue a set of economic policies, often referred to as the 'Washington consensus', which included financial sector liberalisation, privatisation of state-owned enterprises, fiscal discipline and trade, exchange rate and foreign investment deregulation. Since the collapse, however, this consensus has broken down. This paper examines the emergence of the new so-called post-Washington consensus, with its emphasis on governance and social capital. The lexicon of the new policy paradigm underlying this new consensus includes civil society, safety nets, and, especially, governance, to be added to the conventional Washington terminology of open markets, deregulation, liberalisation and structural adjustment. Our central thesis is that this new post-Washington consensus is an attempt to place more emphasis on the political and institutional foundations for programmes of structural reform. However, it is also a kind of politics of antipolitics that attempts to insulate economic institutions from the process of political bargaining.

From Moses to Maggie: Popular Political Wisdom and the Republican Tradition in Political thought

Popular political wisdom is often represented as a form of anti-politics, or Politikverdrossenheit, and therefore as detrimental to the health of the democratic political body. Recently, this negative interpretation of popular political wisdom has been revived in reaction to the growth of rightwing parties in Europe, who seem to be able to mobilise an uncanny, prejudiced and even racist public opinion. In this article, this negative interpretation is criticised as too onesided. It overlooks the democratic implications of populism and the populist, redemptive aspects of democratic politics. In a mythical sense, the populist tradition starts with the originary redemptive politician Moses, and goes on until the present time. Its historical roots can be retraced to a republican conception of politics. The tradition of civic self-government, the concomitant notion of the dangers of political corruption, and the way to overcome this predicament as it was developed in the citystates of the Italian Renaissance, form the conceptual and practical framework in which the politics of populism could have developed at the end of the nineteenth century. Moreover, this framework structures up until today the strategy and rhetoric of politicians who try to pursue the anti-political politics of populism.

The politics of anti-politics: NGOs and democracy in Peru

Abstract The 1980s saw a return to democracy in most Latin American countries, including Peru. However, in spite of what might appear to be the manifestation of a cyclical pattern, this has not signified a return to the previous status quo ante. In spite of the combination of pressure and solidarity imposed by the North in support of democracy, and in spite of the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe (representing an alternative model), the Latin American democracies continue to be fragile and subject to the close and persistent vigilance of their Armed Forces.2 On top of all this, they now have to contend with an additional element, one which did not come into existence until the 1970s: the international NGO movement.

Book Reviews: Britain and Canada in the 1990s: Proceedings of a UK/Canada Colloquium, Canada, Quebec, and the Uses of Nationalism, Federalism in Canada: Selected Readings, The Collapse of Canada?, Representative Government in Western Europe, European Democracies, Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland: A Critical Sociology of Soviet-type Societies, Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland since

Book Reviews: Britain and Canada in the 1990s: Proceedings of a UK/Canada Colloquium, Canada, Quebec, and the Uses of Nationalism, Federalism in Canada: Selected Readings, The Collapse of Canada?, Representative Government in Western Europe, European Democracies, Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland: A Critical Sociology of Soviet-type Societies, Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland since

Book Reviews: Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography, Locke, Volume I: Epistemology, An Essay on the Principle of Population, Principles of Political Economy, Marxism and Nationalism: Theoretical Origins of a Political Crisis, The Internationalization of Japan, Japan and the European Community, Japan's International Relations, Political Life in Japan: Democracy in a Reversible World, Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century, De

Book Reviews: Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography, Locke, Volume I: Epistemology, An Essay on the Principle of Population, Principles of Political Economy, Marxism and Nationalism: Theoretical Origins of a Political Crisis, The Internationalization of Japan, Japan and the European Community, Japan's International Relations, Political Life in Japan: Democracy in a Reversible World, Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century, De

Book Review: Political Dissent and Opposition in Poland: The Workers' Defense Committee "KOR, " by Robert Zuzowski. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1992. Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics, by David Ost. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland: Towards a Critical Sociology of Soviet-Type Society, by Michael Kennedy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Book Review: Political Dissent and Opposition in Poland: The Workers' Defense Committee "KOR, " by Robert Zuzowski. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1992. Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics, by David Ost. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland: Towards a Critical Sociology of Soviet-Type Society, by Michael Kennedy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland since 1968.

Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland since 1968.

Power and Citizenship in a Democratic Society

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Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland since 1968. By David Ost. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. 279p. $34.95.

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Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland since 1968David Ost Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990, pp. xiv, 279

Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland since 1968David Ost Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990, pp. xiv, 279

Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland Since 1968.David Ost

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Solidarity and the politics of anti-politics: opposition and reform in Poland since 1968

Solidarity and the politics of anti-politics: opposition and reform in Poland since 1968

Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics: Opposition and Reform in Poland Since 1968, by David Ost

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Anti-Political Politics: the Barre Phenomenon

One of the Most Remarkable Developments on the French political scene since the Left’s historic victories in the presidential and parliamentary elections of 1981 has been the spectacular emergence of former Prime Minister Raymond Barre as both a powerful contender for the ‘leadership’ of the Right and for the French presidency. His emergence raises a number of interrelated issues which are likely to have a profound impact in France over the next few years.

Anti-Political Politics: the Barre Phenomenon

One of the Most Remarkable Developments on the French political scene since the Left’s historic victories in the presidential and parliamentary elections of 1981 has been the spectacular emergence of former Prime Minister Raymond Barre as both a powerful contender for the ‘leadership’ of the Right and for the French presidency. His emergence raises a number of interrelated issues which are likely to have a profound impact in France over the next few years.