ISBN:
9780231552547
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (296 pages)
Series Statement:
New Directions in Critical Theory v.71
DDC:
303.64
Keywords:
Revolutions
;
Social action
;
Social change
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory's understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold new account of how revolution occurs. She argues that revolutions are not singular events but extended processes: beginning from the interstices of society, they succeed by gradually rearticulating social structures toward a new paradigm.
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the American Edition -- Preface to the German Edition -- Introduction: "It Is a Revolution" -- Part I: Maria's Ménage and the Transience of Heterotopian Praxis -- 1. The Rules of Praxis -- 2. The Materiality of Praxis -- 3. The Connections Between Practices -- Part II: Jacobin Knitters and the Tracks of Structuration -- 4. The Duality of Social Structures -- 5. Recognition and Performative Structuration -- 6. Structures in Three States of Aggregate -- Part III: Marta's Invisible Affinity Group and Interstitial Upheavals -- 7. Disaggregation: Performative Critique and the Laughter of Mimesis -- 8. Constitution: Subcollective Association -- 9. Contamination: Overlaying Structures -- Part IV: The Execution of the Marquise and Metaleptic Paradigm Shifts -- 10. Paradigm Shifts as a Gradual Replacement of Anchoring Practices -- 11. The Revolutionary Emergence of the Concept of Revolution -- 12. Metaleptic Dynamics -- Conclusion: "The difficulties of the plains" and the Revolutionary Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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