Joy James

Steve Martinot

This volume seeks to bring into focus some of the main dimensions of political hegemony, including judicial repression, state terror, the structures of racialization, discrimination, and colonization. Against these, it then offers open-ended views of many different levels of resistance, from mass struggles and problems of national liberation to alternate ways of living one's intimate life within the community. The role of imagination, ideology, and critique in organizational activity, the problem of absorption by the hierarchy one resists, and modes of regeneration of political energies are all brought together as dimensions of cultures of resistance. The essays here collected do not offer solutions but raise questions within four main themes: domination, cultural formation, reification, and transformation. Ultimately, the various perspectives are based on the concept that autonomy is the fundamental building block of democracy. The different issues involved are viewed as moments on a common political trajectory leading toward the liberation of the human spirit from repressive social and cultural forces. Taken as a whole, these outstanding essays broaden our understanding of liberation and provide an excellent resource for philosophers and activists alike.

Studies in Alternate Political Cultures

The Problems of Resistance

"The relationship between the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and the post-structuralist Jacques Derrida has never been fully examined until now. In Forms in the Abyss, Steve Martinot sees these two important philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century as "kindred souls" despite their vast differences."--BOOK JACKET.

A Philosophical Bridge Between Sartre and Derrida

Forms in the Abyss

An extensive critique of the structures of whiteness and how they produce racism in the United States.

Steve Martinot

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