{"id":902,"date":"2018-09-13T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=902"},"modified":"2026-01-10T18:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:59:56","slug":"a-little-philosophical-lexicon-of-anarchism-from-proudhon-to-deleuze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze<br \/>\n<\/strong>Daniel Colson<br \/>\nTranslated by Jesse Cohn<\/p>\n<p><em>A provocative exploration of hidden affinities and genealogies in anarchist thought<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is the thought of Gilles Deleuze secretly linked to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon\u2019s declaration: \u201cI am an anarchist\u201d? 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 \u201ca thought too scandalous to take its place in the official edifice of philosophy,\u201d with profound implications for the way we understand social movements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a creative and yet precise way, Daniel Colson brings together two lines of thought \u2013 philosophy from Spinoza to Leibniz \u2013 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.\u201d \u2013 Todd May, author of <em>The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cColson\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lexicon\u00a0<\/em>is an inspiring resource for conceptualizing anarchism: it offers new, exciting paths\u00a0for exploring anarchism with French thought and French thought with anarchism.\u201d \u2013 Iwona Janicka, author of <em>Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 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 \u2013 even the name anarchism \u2013 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 \u201crejection of first principles,\u201d 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.\u201d \u2013 James Martel, author of <em>The Misinterpellated Subject<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Daniel Colson is a professor of sociology at the Universit\u00e9 de St.-\u00c9tienne in Lyon. He is the author of <em>Trois Essais de Philosophie Anarchiste: Islam, Histoire, Monadologie<\/em> (2004) as well as several studies of French labor history.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Cohn is an associate professor of English at Purdue University Northwest. He is the author of <em>Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics<\/em> (2006) and <em>Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848\u20132011<\/em> (2014).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-Q37UBQ8NE8DYS\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"Q37UBQ8NE8DYS\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-Q37UBQ8NE8DYS\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Official release to the book trade in April\u00a02019.<\/p>\n<p>Available direct from Minor Compositions now for the special price of \u00a310 + shipping.<\/p>\n<p>You can also download it <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/colson-philosophical-lexicon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>280 pages, 6 x 9<br \/>\nUK: \u00a320 \/ US: $25<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-57027-341-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s declaration: \u201cI am an anarchist\u201d? 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