[D66] Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze

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A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze

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A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze
Daniel Colson
Translated by Jesse Cohn

A provocative exploration of hidden affinities and genealogies in
anarchist thought

Is the thought of Gilles Deleuze secretly linked to Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon’s declaration: “I am an anarchist”? Has anarchism, for more
than a century and a half, been secretly Deleuzian? In the guise of a
playfully unorthodox lexicon, sociologist Daniel Colson presents an
exploration of hidden affinities between the great philosophical
heresies and “a thought too scandalous to take its place in the official
edifice of philosophy,” with profound implications for the way we
understand social movements.

“In a creative and yet precise way, Daniel Colson brings together two
lines of thought – philosophy from Spinoza to Leibniz – and anarchism
from Proudhon to the present day. At their intersection he discovers an
affirmative and expressive anarchism that rejects all forms of
resentment and negativity. This is anarchism as joy and empowerment
rather than sadness and accusation.” – Todd May, author of The Political
Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism

“Colson’s Lexicon is an inspiring resource for conceptualizing
anarchism: it offers new, exciting paths for exploring anarchism with
French thought and French thought with anarchism.” – Iwona Janicka,
author of Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism

“This is a fantastic (and anarchist) way to arrange a book. Reading
these various entries in any order offers a line of thinking that
connects disparate thinkers ranging from Proudhon to Simondon to
Nietzsche to Deleuze within the term anarchism. This is done not to bind
these thinkers with the kinds of straightjackets that names – even the
name anarchism – often perform but rather to associate, interconnect and
arrange these thinkers in a way that speaks across several centuries,
practices and ways of thinking. What emerges is a radical challenge to
the insistence on dialectic resolution, to occult left teleologies, and
to the certainty that past anarchists have nothing to say to
contemporary anarchists (and visa versa). In his claim that anarchism
first of all is a “rejection of first principles,” Colson shows how, far
from being disabling and rendering the world incoherent, this
understanding recognizes the affirmative nature of an anarchism that has
not ceased to function amidst between and even through myriad forms of
capitalist and archist oppression.” – James Martel, author of The
Misinterpellated Subject

Bio: Daniel Colson is a professor of sociology at the Université de
St.-Étienne in Lyon. He is the author of Trois Essais de Philosophie
Anarchiste: Islam, Histoire, Monadologie (2004) as well as several
studies of French labor history.

Jesse Cohn is an associate professor of English at Purdue University
Northwest. He is the author of Anarchism and the Crisis of
Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics (2006) and
Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848–2011 (2014).