Books by Daniel K Fletcher
Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards, as Slavoj Žižek believes, nihilism, or does it te... more Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards, as Slavoj Žižek believes, nihilism, or does it tend towards, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri believe, true egalitarian freedom?
Within The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism, Fletcher presents an answer that manages to tend towards both simultaneously. In entering into contemporary debates on radicalism, this innovative volume proposes a revised conception of Hardt and Negri’s philosophy of emancipatory desire. Indeed, Fletcher reassesses Hardt and Negri’s history of Western radicalism and challenges their notion of an alter-modernity break from bourgeois modernity. In addition to this, this title proposes the idea of Western anti-capitalism as a spirit within a spirit, exploring how anti-capitalist movements in the West pose a genuine challenge to the capitalist order while remaining dependent on liberalist assumptions about the emancipatory individual.
Inspired by post-structuralism and rejecting both revolutionary transcendence and notions of an underlying desiring purity, The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism offers new insight into how liberal capitalist society persistently produces its own forms of resistance against itself. This book will appeal to graduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as: Sociology, Politics, International Relations, Cultural Studies, History, and Philosophy.
Papers by Daniel K Fletcher
In this article I link the "social ethos" of contemporary anti-capitalism (with a focus on the Oc... more In this article I link the "social ethos" of contemporary anti-capitalism (with a focus on the Occupy movement) to a history of liberalist radicalism in the Western world. I challenge the leftist perspectives of Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek to argue that there is a genuinely progressive, radical undercurrent to liberalist culture, with movements such as the Occupy movement unconsciously drawing on, and being a product of, this culture. I trace the strands of a radical liberalist culture back to some of the tenets in the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza and John Locke, postulating the development of an egalitarian individualism through Western history. However, rather than celebrate or champion the liberal tradition, I propose a fundamental contradiction at the heart of liberalist culture, and consider how neoliberalism draws on and brings out the well-noted possessive tendencies of liberal individualism. I argue that liberalism is not synonymous with capitalism, even if it is compatible with it and often supports its development. I argue that the contemporary form of neoliberal capitalism does not represent the fulfilment of liberal ideology per se, but the fulfilment of one (arguably perverse) strand of liberal culture that prioritizes the struggle for individual power over the struggle for individual freedom.
Short discussion of left-wing issues and of Ingrid Hoofd's 'Ambiguities of Activism.'
Book Reviews by Daniel K Fletcher
Review of Nicholas Gane's book, which is used to launch a short discussion of the insights of bio... more Review of Nicholas Gane's book, which is used to launch a short discussion of the insights of bio-sociology.
On the Caster Semenya controversy: Hyperandrogenic competitors are not men, and exceptional women... more On the Caster Semenya controversy: Hyperandrogenic competitors are not men, and exceptional women shouldn’t be excluded on the grounds that ‘normal’ women feel threatened by their masculine traits
It’s time to let go of the Victorian idea that a ‘serious’ man should not be sensually open.
Teaching Documents by Daniel K Fletcher
A Christmas Carol has been revised for children a number of times before. But this version attemp... more A Christmas Carol has been revised for children a number of times before. But this version attempts something different. Previous revisions have shortened, omitted and simplified; and in doing so, have inadvertently removed much of the depth from Dickens’s original text. Fletcher’s version, on the contrary, retains, digs and explores, to bring Dickens to the young in all his glory.
Fletcher stays true to Dickens’s voice, depth of meaning, and purpose, while making every line as accessible as possible. The result is a highly readable version of a timeless Christmas story, told in twelve easily-digestible Parts, in honour of the twelve days of Christmas.
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Books by Daniel K Fletcher
Within The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism, Fletcher presents an answer that manages to tend towards both simultaneously. In entering into contemporary debates on radicalism, this innovative volume proposes a revised conception of Hardt and Negri’s philosophy of emancipatory desire. Indeed, Fletcher reassesses Hardt and Negri’s history of Western radicalism and challenges their notion of an alter-modernity break from bourgeois modernity. In addition to this, this title proposes the idea of Western anti-capitalism as a spirit within a spirit, exploring how anti-capitalist movements in the West pose a genuine challenge to the capitalist order while remaining dependent on liberalist assumptions about the emancipatory individual.
Inspired by post-structuralism and rejecting both revolutionary transcendence and notions of an underlying desiring purity, The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism offers new insight into how liberal capitalist society persistently produces its own forms of resistance against itself. This book will appeal to graduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as: Sociology, Politics, International Relations, Cultural Studies, History, and Philosophy.
Papers by Daniel K Fletcher
Book Reviews by Daniel K Fletcher
Commentary by Daniel K Fletcher
Teaching Documents by Daniel K Fletcher
Fletcher stays true to Dickens’s voice, depth of meaning, and purpose, while making every line as accessible as possible. The result is a highly readable version of a timeless Christmas story, told in twelve easily-digestible Parts, in honour of the twelve days of Christmas.
Within The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism, Fletcher presents an answer that manages to tend towards both simultaneously. In entering into contemporary debates on radicalism, this innovative volume proposes a revised conception of Hardt and Negri’s philosophy of emancipatory desire. Indeed, Fletcher reassesses Hardt and Negri’s history of Western radicalism and challenges their notion of an alter-modernity break from bourgeois modernity. In addition to this, this title proposes the idea of Western anti-capitalism as a spirit within a spirit, exploring how anti-capitalist movements in the West pose a genuine challenge to the capitalist order while remaining dependent on liberalist assumptions about the emancipatory individual.
Inspired by post-structuralism and rejecting both revolutionary transcendence and notions of an underlying desiring purity, The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism offers new insight into how liberal capitalist society persistently produces its own forms of resistance against itself. This book will appeal to graduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as: Sociology, Politics, International Relations, Cultural Studies, History, and Philosophy.
Fletcher stays true to Dickens’s voice, depth of meaning, and purpose, while making every line as accessible as possible. The result is a highly readable version of a timeless Christmas story, told in twelve easily-digestible Parts, in honour of the twelve days of Christmas.