From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power

In its comparison of anarchist and poststructuralist thought, this text contends that the most pressing political problem faced in the 21st century is the proliferation and intensification of power. The book targets the tendency of radical political theories and movements to reaffirm power and authority, in different guises, in their very attempt to overcome it. In his examination of thinkers such as Bakunin, Lacan, Stirner, and Foucault, the author explores epistemological, ontological, and political questions such as: is the essential human subject the point of departure from which power and authority can be opposed? and is the human subject itself a site of domination that must be unmasked.