Alternative futures and the present

• Verfasst von: Samaddar, Ranabir [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Alternative futures and the present
• Titelzusatz: postcolonial possibilities
• Verf.angabe: Ranabir Samaddar
• Verlagsort: London ; New York
• Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: vii, 322 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Critiques and alternatives to capitalism
• ISBN: 978-1-032-40481-3
• ISBN: 978-1-032-40480-6
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HP 1000
• Sach-SW: Colonialism & imperialism
• Sach-SW: Ethnic Studies
• Sach-SW: Ethnic studies
• Sach-SW: Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
• Sach-SW: Marxism & Communism
• Sach-SW: PHILOSOPHY / Political
• Sach-SW: PHILOSOPHY / Social
• Sach-SW: POL045000
• Sach-SW: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
• Sach-SW: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
• Sach-SW: Political science & theory
• Sach-SW: Politikwissenschaft
• Sach-SW: Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen der extremen Linken
• Sach-SW: SOC026040
• Sach-SW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
• Sach-SW: Social & political philosophy
• Sach-SW: Social theory
• Sach-SW: Soziale und politische Philosophie
• Sach-SW: Sozialtheorie
• K10plus-PPN: 184396354X

Abstract

This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers. Through engagement with selected modern thinkers, texts, and events, it imagines a different future from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that emerge from the present and which shape contemporary radical thinking. An invitation to imagine a possible future marked with alternative possibilities of conducting struggles, and living through contentions and social restructuring, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social and political theory, political philosophy, colonialism and postcolonialism, and historical materialism