Anarchafeminism

This book takes anarchist feminism in a fresh direction by relocating it within an ontological framework developed from Baruch Spinoza’s seventeenth-century efforts … Bottici makes a strong case for anarchism as a method and for Spinoza as a useful voice for building anarchist-feminist process-philosophy. * Contemporary Political Theory *Bottici has eruditely crafted an anarchafeminist political philosophy. * CHOICE *

This is a capacious, clear, and revolutionary text that will bring readers who are just starting to learn about feminist philosophy as well as those who have been around a long time. This book does an excellent job in communicating the value of the anarchic, especially in its resistance to the leader, and its thoroughgoing affirmation of the value of freedom. This freedom is not a narrow idea of personal liberty, but an entire mode of transforming the world. We learn as well about a ‘transindividualism’ which allows us a way to rethink global solidarity for our times.

Chiara Bottici is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, USA. She is the author of Men and States (2009), A Philosophy of Political Myth (2010), The Myth of the Clash of Civilization (2010), Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, and Identity (2013) and Imaginal Politics: Images beyond the Imagination and beyond the Imaginary (2014). She is also editor of The Politics of Imagination, co-edited with Benoit Challand (2011) and The Anarchist Turn, co-edited with Jacob Blumenfeld and Simon Critchley (2013).