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The book addresses the social, political and cultural significance of revolt and revolution in three dimensions. First, it analyzes revolt and revolution as 'events' which are of history but not reducible to it. Second, it elaborates on theories that grant revolt and revolution a central place in their structure. And third, it discusses revolutionary or emancipatory theories that seek to participate in radical change. Further, since both revolt and revolution involve the critique of what exists, of actual reality, the implications of the intimate relationship between revolt, revolution and critique are explicated.…mehr

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The book addresses the social, political and cultural significance of revolt and revolution in three dimensions. First, it analyzes revolt and revolution as 'events' which are of history but not reducible to it. Second, it elaborates on theories that grant revolt and revolution a central place in their structure. And third, it discusses revolutionary or emancipatory theories that seek to participate in radical change. Further, since both revolt and revolution involve the critique of what exists, of actual reality, the implications of the intimate relationship between revolt, revolution and critique are explicated.
Autorenporträt
Bülent Diken is Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, Department of Sociology. His research fields are social theory, post-structuralism, political philosophy and urbanism. His books include Strangers, Ambivalence and Social Theory (Ashgate 1998). He is author of The Culture of Exception - Sociology Facing the Camp (Routledge 2005), I Terrorens Skygge (Samfundslitteratur 2005), Sociology through the Projector (Routledge 2007) and Nihilism (Routledge 2009).