Poststructuralist Anarchism

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Poststructuralist Anarchism (or postanarchism) is a relatively new field in political theory and philosophy. The first article that inaugurated the research on postanarchism was published by Todd May as recently as 1989. Since the idea that Anarchism and Poststructuralism could be related in terms of history of ideas and well as the idea that the classical anarchist thought could be “upgraded” with the achievements of continental thought has intrigued many scholars and research students. Since the time of the of May’s first article numerous articles and books have been published exploring the terrain where anarchism and poststructuralism overlap. One of the most influential of these has been Saul Newman’s book “From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power” (2001).


However, the story of this relationship between the two traditions can be dated back to 1844 publication of Max Stirner’s “The Ego and It’s Own” and those claims that Stirner stood as a precursor of Nietzschean revolution in philosophy as well as Freudian establishment of psychoanalysis as a distinct discipline and Lacanian elaborations of it. In addition various anarchist texts from Bakunin onwards and throughout 20th century anarchism point toward a radically different theories and models from those of Marxian thought and Marxism. Some of the anarchist theories of power, ideology, sovereignty and statism have striking similarities with what was later explored by Foucault and his followers. In addition, Guy Debord’s statements about the society of the spectacle have striking resemblance with works of Baudrillard. At the same time we see Schumann’s use of Heideggerian thought that points toward anarchy. These are some of the glimpses of the relationship between anarchism and poststructuralism.


This groups is dedicated to further exploration of the relationship between these two traditions in philosophy, political theory and cultural theory.

THE INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY UPON THE CONDUCT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Clinical and Metapsychological Considerations

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Publication TypeWeb Article
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsHoward F. Stein
AbstractPsychogeography begins with the vicissitudes of selfhood in a human body and
proceeds outward to encompass the world. The issue of boundaries takes us to
the heart of psychogeography. Symbolic group-boundaries have the quality of
dreamlike condensations. Through boundaries we express anxiety over body
integrity or cohesion versus disorganization, maleness versus femaleness,
pleasure versus unpleasure, animateness versus inanimateness, security
versus danger, symbiosis versus emotional separation (representational
differentiation). How these all are resolved finds ultimate expression in
the delineation of inside from outside: what and who are to be included in
the group, and what and who are to be excluded from it.
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Religion and Politics in Islam: Challenge to Christian-Muslim Relations

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Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1996
AuthorsCHARLES AMJAD-ALI
Journal TitleWord & World
VolumeXVI
Issue2
Pages151-7
Start Page151
AbstractMuslims have a broad range of views on the relation of religion and politics, but all
Muslims agree that there is an intimate relation based on the principle that God rules
all of life. The author provides a window on the intricacy of Muslim society, its debates
on the public role of faith, and the challenge implied for Christian theology.
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The Metaphilosophy of Naturalism

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Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2001
AuthorsQuentin Smith
Journal TitlePhilo
Volume4
Issue2
AbstractThe metaphilosophy of naturalism is about the nature and goals of naturalist philosophy. A real or hypothetical person who knows the nature, goals and consequences of naturalist philosophy may be called an “informed naturalist.” An informed naturalist is justified in drawing certain conclusions about the current state of naturalism and the research program that naturalist philosophers ought to undertake. One conclusion is that the great majority of naturalist philosophers have an unjustified belief that naturalism is true and an unjustified belief that theism (or supernaturalism) is false. I explain this epistemic situation in this paper. I also articulate the goals an informed naturalist would recommend to remedy this situation. These goals, for the most part, have as their consequence the restoring of naturalism to its original state (approximately, to a certain degree, given the great difference in the specific theories), which is the state it possessed in Greco-Roman philosophy before naturalism was “overwhelmed” in the Middle Ages, beginning with Augustine (naturalism had critics as far back as Xenophanes, sixth century B.C.E., but it was not “overwhelmed” until much later). Contemporary naturalists still accept, unwittingly, the redefinition of naturalism that began to be constructed by theists in the fifth century C.E. and that underpins our basic world-view today.
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