Politics of the Many by Benjamin Halligan, Alexei Penzin, Ste... - 9781350268081

Politics of the ManyContemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency\nAuthor(s): Benjamin Halligan, Alexei Penzin, Stefano Pippa, Rebecca Carson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350268081, 978-1350268081\nSynopsis\nPolitics of the Many draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelleys celebrated call to arms: Ye are many they are few! This idea of the Many, as a general form of emancipatory subjectivity that cannot be erased for the sake of the One, is the philosophical and political assumption shared by contributors to this book. They raise questions of collective agency, and its crisis in contemporary capitalism, via new engagements with Marxist philosophy, psychoanalysis, theories of social reproduction and value-form, and post-colonial critiques, and drawing on activist thought and strategies. \n\nThis book interrogates both established and emergent formations of the Many (the people, classes, pu.