Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-311) and index.
Introduction: The general form of the crisis of representation -- False solutions -- The necessity of a critique of representation -- Anarchism as a critique of representation -- Anarchism beyond representationalism and antirepresentationalism -- Anarchist hermeneutics as ethics and ecology -- The fate of representation, the fate of critique -- Reconstructing anarchist aesthetics -- Aesthetic production -- The critique of democracy as representation -- The critique of economy as representation -- The critique of history as representation -- The critique of identity as representation.
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"Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation is intended to provide readers of literary criticism, art history, political philosophy, and the social sciences with a fresh perspective from which to revisit dead-end theoretical debates over concepts such as "agency," "essentialism," and "realism"--And, at the same time, to offer a new take on anarchism itself, challenging conventional readings of the tradition. The anarchism that emerges from this reinterpretation is neither a musty rationalism nor a millenarian irrationalism, but a living body of thought that points beyond the sterile antinomies of post-modern and Marxist theory."--Jacket.