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Drawing a line of intellectual heritage between French philosophy and antifascist practice, this book provides new, incisive interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir's existentialism to make the case for a broader militant movement against fascism.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
� A Philosophy of Antifascism
�1. The Three-Way Fight
�1.1. Demarcating Antifascism and Liberalism
�1.2. Demarcating Antifascism and Fascism
�1.3. Settler-State Hegemony: Liberalism and White Settlerism
�2. Towards a Philosophy of Antifascism
� The Ethics of Ambiguity and the Antinomies of Emancipatory Violence
�1. Existentialism is an Antifascism
�2. Ambiguity and Solidarity
�2.1. Beauvoir's Cartesian Egalitarianism
�2.2. Beauvoir's Critique of Marxism
�3. The Antinomies of Action
�3.1. Discourse and Disagreement
�3.2. The Antinomies of Emancipatory Violence
�4. Vengeance, Violence, and the State
�4.1 An Eye For an Eye
�4.2 "I had my own Martyrs"
�5. The Three-Way Fight and No-Platforming the Far Right
� Politics That Does Not Command
�1. Demarcating Egalitarianism
�2. Politics Against the Police
�3. Disagreement and Command
�4. Why Fascism Isn't Politics
� Punching Nazis
�1. The Reason for Militant Antifascism
�2. Punching Nazis Is Not In Bad Faith
�3. Punching Nazis Is Not Anti-Egalitarian
�4. Militant Antifascism Is Community Self-Defense
� Fighting White Supremacy: From Antifascism to Decolonization
�1. From Antifascism...
�2. Whiteness as Possession and Entitlement
�3. Whiteness as Settler-Colonial Sovereignty
�4. ...To Decolonization
Bibliography
About the author
Devin Zane Shaw teaches philosophy at Douglas College, Canada. He is author of Egalitarian Moments: From Descartes to Rancière (2016) and Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art (2010). He writes about philosophy, political theory, and social movements and co-edits the 'Living Existentialism' book series.
