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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2026

        Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism

        by Rita Filanti

        Despite a growing interest in her life and work, Voltairine de Cleyre's contribution to anarchist studies, women studies, and American literature is still mostly unacknowledged. Described by Emma Goldman as 'the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced', de Cleyre authored poems, prose sketches, lectures and translations which radiate with her vision of the world, meticulous use of language, and iconoclastic vigor. Drawing on her copious correspondence with family members, friends and comrades, this monograph provides novel insight into the most significant events of her life while investigating the aesthetic concern characterizing all of her writing. Constantly shifting across languages, she established cosmopolitan networks within immigrant communities at home and beyond the ocean, always believing, until her untimely death, in universal solidarity and the ultimate non-existence of national, ethnic and linguistic barriers.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2020

        Anarchism, 1914–18

        Internationalism, anti-militarism and war

        by Ruth Kinna, Matthew S. Adams

        Anarchism 1914-18 is the first systematic analysis of anarchist responses to the First World War. It examines the interventionist debate between Peter Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta which split the anarchist movement in 1914 and provides a historical and conceptual analysis of debates conducted in European and American movements about class, nationalism, internationalism, militarism, pacifism and cultural resistance. Contributions discuss the justness of war, non-violence and pacifism, anti-colonialism, pro-feminist perspectives on war and the potency of myths about the war and revolution for the reframing of radical politics in the 1920s and beyond. Divisions about the war and the experience of being caught on the wrong side of the Bolshevik Revolution encouraged anarchists to reaffirm their deeply-held rejection of vanguard socialism and develop new strategies that drew on a plethora of anti-war activities.

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        Tschechows Stücke

        Übersetzt und bearbeitet von Thomas Brasch. Mit einem Nachwort von Henning Rischbieter

        by Anton Tschechow, Thomas Brasch

        Inhalt: Platonow oder Der Anarchist als Liebhaber. Iwanow. Die Möve. Onkel Wanja. Die drei Schwestern. Der Kirschgarten.

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        December 2008

        Die Dämonen

        Roman

        by Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Hermann Röhl

        Die Dämonen – das sind Stawrogin, ein von Machtgier und Zerstörungslust Besessener, der ein Leben voller Ausschweifungen und Grausamkeiten führt, und der Anarchist Stepanowitsch, der selbst vor Mord und Terror nicht zurückschreckt. Sie versetzen eine ganze Gesellschaft in Angst und Schrecken. Die Dämonen ist Dostojewskis machtvollster Roman. Es ist eine spannende Beschreibung der russischen Gesellschaft am Vorabend der Revolution und eine beeindruckende Parabel menschlicher Psyche.

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        August 2004

        Dialoge zwischen Unsterblichen, Lebendigen und Toten

        by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

        Der berühmte Philosoph Zhuangzi streitet sich mit einem Mann, der seit 500 Jahren tot ist. Diderot empfängt einen aufdringlichen Reporter aus dem 20. Jahrhundert zum Interview. Ein gealterter Anarchist erklärt einem enttäuschten Jünger, woran die Revolution gescheitert ist. Weimarer Zeitgenossen Goethes fallen in einer Fernseh-Talkshow über den Olympier her und merken nicht, wie sie sich dabei blamieren. Der gezielte Anachronismus dient Enzensberger als Falle, in die er den Zeitgeist zu locken sucht.Enzensberger greift mit diesen Dialogen die Form der antiken Götter- und Totengespräche wieder auf und bringt damit ein menschliches Organ auf die Bühne zurück, das im Regietheater der Gegenwart in Vergessenheit geraten ist: das Gehirn. Spielend nehmen es die Tragikomödien der Intelligenz mit denen der Körper auf. Wer am Ende recht hat, ist keineswegs ausgemacht. Es wird bis zur letzten Runde gekämpft, zum Beispiel in einem malaiischen Militärcamp, wo ein betrügerischer Banker mit einem gestrandeten Exterroristen hadert. Ihr Streit kulminiert in einem musikalischen Duett, bei dem sich zeigt, daß der Jargon des Brokers und die Parolen des Extremismus ebenso schrill wie nahtlos ineinander übergehen.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2025

        Associational anarchism

        by Chris Wyatt

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        Anarchism
        June 2012

        Changing anarchism

        Anarchist theory and practice in a global age

        by Edited by Jonathan Purkis and James Bowen

        The massive protests against globalisation in recent years have re-awoken interest in anarchism. Changing anarchism, finally available in paperback, sets out to reposition anarchist theory and practice by documenting contemporary anarchist practice and providing a viable analytical framework for understanding it. The contributions here, from both academics and activists, raise challenging and sometimes provocative questions about the complex nature of power and resistance to it. The areas covered include: sexuality and identity; psychological dependency on technology; libertarian education; religion and spirituality; protest tactics; mental health and artistic expression; and the ongoing 'metaphorical wars' against drugs and terror. This collection epitomises the rich diversity that exists within contemporary anarchism as well as demonstrating its ongoing relevance as a sociological tool.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2018

        Changing anarchism

        Anarchist theory and practice in a global age

        by Jonathan Purkis, James Bowen

        The massive protests against globalisation in recent years have re-awoken interest in anarchism. Changing anarchism sets out to reposition anarchist theory and practice by documenting contemporary anarchist practice and providing a viable analytical framework for understanding it. The contributions here, from both academics and activists, raise challenging and sometimes provocative questions about the complex nature of power and resistance to it. The areas covered include: sexuality and identity; psychological dependency on technology; libertarian education; religion and spirituality; protest tactics; mental health and artistic expression; and the ongoing 'metaphorical wars' against drugs and terror. This collection epitomises the rich diversity that exists within contemporary anarchism as well as demonstrating its ongoing relevance as a sociological tool.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2016

        Anarchy in Athens

        An ethnography of militancy, emotions and violence

        by Nicholas Apoifis, Uri Gordon

        The battles between Athenian anarchists and the Greek state have received a high degree of media attention recently. But away from the intensity of street protests militants implement anarchist practices whose outcomes are far less visible. They feed the hungry and poor, protect migrants from fascist beatings and try to carve out an autonomous political, social and cultural space. Activists within the movement share politics centred on hostility to the capitalist state and all forms of domination, hierarchy and discrimination. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork among Athenian anarchists and anti-authoritarians, Anarchy in Athens unravels the internal complexities within this milieu and provides a better understanding of the forces that give the space its shape.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        No masters but God

        Portraits of anarcho-Judaism

        by Hayyim Rothman

        The forgotten legacy of religious Jewish anarchism, and the adventures and ideas of its key figures, finally comes to light in this book. Set in the decades surrounding both world wars, No masters but God identifies a loosely connected group of rabbis and traditionalist thinkers who explicitly appealed to anarchist ideas in articulating the meaning of the Torah, traditional practice, Jewish life and the mission of modern Jewry. Full of archival discoveries and first translations from Yiddish and Hebrew, it explores anarcho-Judaism in its variety through the works of Yaakov Meir Zalkind, Yitshak Nahman Steinberg, Yehudah Leyb Don-Yahiya, Avraham Yehudah Heyn, Natan Hofshi, Shmuel Alexandrov, Yehudah Ashlag and Aaron Shmuel Tamaret. With this ground-breaking account, Hayyim Rothman traces a complicated story about the modern entanglement of religion and anarchism, pacifism and Zionism, prophetic anti-authoritarianism and mystical antinomianism.

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        May 1985

        Berthold

        Erzählung. Redaktion: Volker Michels

        by Hermann Hesse, Volker Michels

        Dieses 1907/8 entstandene und 1944 erstmals veröffentlichte Romanfragment ist, obwohl es mit dem dritten Kapitel abbricht, dennoch eine vollgütige, in sich geschlossene Erzählung. Hesse zeichnet hier die Entwicklungsgeschichte eines Schülers, der von seinem Vater zum Theologen bestimmt ist. Doch Bertholds Konstitution, Temperament und vielseitige Begabung geraten schon bald mit dem eingeschlagenen Berufsweg in Konflikt. Im Verlauf seiner Ausbildung am Kölner Priesterseminar bringen Eros und Eifersucht den Studenten so sehr aus dem Gleichgewicht, daß er sich nur auf gewaltsame Weise zu befreien vermag. Als Söldner flieht er in den Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Dort verlieren sich seine Spuren. Zwanzig Jahre später hat Hesse diesen Stoff, der den Konflikt zwischen Geist und Eros zu vereinbaren sucht, wieder aufgegriffen und ihm in »Narziß und Goldmund« eine definitive Gestalt gegeben. Über den Schluß der Erzählung »Berthold« schrieb Eduard Korrodi 1945: »Dies Ende ist wohl das ungewöhnlichste, das Hermann Hesse je geschrieben hat. Der Dichter ließ es beim Fragment bewenden, das von Leidenschaften unheimlich vibriert ... Das Bild dieses sinnierenden Unholds und Kraftmenschen, der ein ebenso gewalttätiger Humanist wie Nihilist hätte werden können, bleibt ebenso haften, wie es begreiflich ist, daß ihm der Dichter nicht in den Schatten der Fahnen folgen wollte. Er ist zu sehr an sein Unerforschliches herangekommen. Das genügt ihm und den Lesern, die Gut und Böse in unheimlichem Bündnis sehen.«

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2024

        Anarchism and eugenics

        An unlikely convergence, 1890-1940

        by Richard Cleminson

        At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a 'scientific' doctrine that sought to eliminate 'dysgenics' and champion the 'fit' as a means of 'race' survival by a political and social movement that ostensibly believed in the destruction of the state and the removal of all hierarchical relationships. What explains this reception of eugenics by anarchism? How was eugenics mobilised by anarchists as part of their struggle against capitalism and the state? What were the consequences of this overlap for both anarchism and eugenics as transnational movements?

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2012

        Unstable universalities

        Poststructuralism and radical politics

        by Saul Newman, Simon Tormey, Jon Simons, Chantal Hamil

        Unstable universalities, available for the first time in paperback, examines the theme of universality and its place in radical political theory. Saul Newman argues that both Marxist politics of class struggle and the postmodern politics of difference have reached their historical and political limits, and that what is needed is a new approach to universality, a new way of thinking about collective politics. By exploring various themes and ideas within poststructuralist and post-Marxist theory, the book develops a new and original approach to universality - one that has important implications for politics today, particularly on questions of power, subjectivity, ethics and democracy. In so doing, it engages in debates with thinkers such as Laclau, Zizek, Badiou and Rancière over the future of radical politics. It also applies important theoretical insights to contemporary events such as the emergence of the anti-globalisation movement, the 'war on terrorism', the rise of anti-immigrant racism, and the nihilistic violence which lurks at the margins of the political. ;

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