Description
Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis takes up the question of how to theorize and revive revolutionary hope in the present era of political disillusion. The collection consists of new cutting-edge research essays written by an interdisciplinary mix of established and emerging scholars, bringing together a wide range of intellectual traditions and perspectives. The contributors confront the challenge of relearning hope by exploring the politically transformative potential of past disappointments and defeats. They encourage us to acknowledge, come to terms with and learn from the complexities, failures, and losses entailed in resistance, and to consider them as an occasion for rethinking the established patterns of revolutionary thought. Specifically, the essays question how engagement with past disappointments, losses, and defeats can help us creatively respond to the difficulties and failures of resistance—and inspire our imagination of revolutionary possibilities in the present.
Written in an accessible tone without theoretical density or academic jargon, Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis provides theoretical and historical contexts to what it means to engage in left activism today. A vital resource for those interested in intellectual history, political history, radical politics, democracy, and contemporary political theory.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Maša Mrovlje and Alex Zamalin
Part 1: Rethinking the Relationship Between Loss and Revolutionary Politics
1. Gramsci and the Problem of Fatalism
Lukas Slothuus
2. The Promise of Solidarity: Learning from Failure with Rosa Luxemburg
Maša Mrovlje
3. Between Loss and Hope: Reflections on the Black Revolutionary Tradition
Alex Zamalin
4. Displacing Hope: A Black Thought Experiment
Joseph Winters
Part 2: Negative Affect, Mobilisation and the Troubles of Democracy
5. Staying with melancholy? An archive of the future’s past
Brigitte Bargetz
6. Negative Affect and Political (De)Mobilization
Deborah Gould
7. Politics as Breath-work
David McIvor
Part 3: Resisting Resistance, Disavowal and Resilience
8. Existential Political Commitment and Radical Love as Resources Against Resisting Resistance
Lewis R. Gordon
9. Revolutionary Nonviolence and the Problem of Disavowal
Erin Pineda
10. The Promise of Resilience: Governance and Resistance in ‘Complex Times’
Alix Olson
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