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{{dablink|This article is about the U.K.-based academic, not to be confused with the Saul Newman who works at [[American University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]}}
'''Saul Newman''' (born 1972) is a [[political theorist]] and central [[post-anarchism|post-anarchist]] thinker.
Newman coined the term "post-anarchism" as a general term for political philosophies filtering 19th century [[anarchism]] through a [[post-structuralism|post-structuralist]] lens, and later popularized it through his 2001 book ''[[From Bakunin to Lacan]]''. Thus he rejects a number of concepts traditionally associated with anarchism, including [[essentialism]], a "positive" [[human nature]], and the concept of [[revolution]]. The links between poststructuralism and anarchism have also been developed by thinkers like [[Todd May]] and [[Lewis Call]].
Newman is currently Senior Lecturer in Politics at [[Goldsmiths College, University of London]]. He received his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from the [[University of Sydney]], and his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] in [[political science]] from the [[University of New South Wales]]. His work has been translated into Turkish, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese and Serbo-Croatian, and has been the subject of a number of debates amongst anarchist theorists and activists as well as academics.{{Ref_label|A|I|none}}
== Thought ==
Some of Newman's publications in recent times deal with [[Max Stirner]], a German philosopher of the mid-19th century, author of the famous book ''Der Einzige und sein Eigentum'' (1845) (Engl. trans. ''[[The Ego and Its Own]]'', 1907). Newman regards Stirner as a key figure in developing a new radical critique of Western society. He calls Stirner a proto-[[poststructuralist]] who on the one hand basically anticipated modern poststructuralists such as [[Michel Foucault|Foucault]], [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]], [[Gilles Deleuze|Deleuze]], and [[Jacques Derrida|Derrida]], but on the other had already transcended them, thus providing what they were unable to: paving the ground for a "non-essentialist" critique of present [[liberal]] [[capitalism|capitalist]] society. Newman's interpretation of Stirner has received some degree of attention, including an endorsement by [[Ernesto Laclau]], who provided a foreword to ''From Bakunin to Lacan''.
==Writings==
=== Articles ===
* "Universalism/Particularism: Towards a Poststructuralist Politics of Universality", ''New Formations'', 41: 2000.
* "[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v004/4.3newman.html Anarchism and the Politics of Ressentiment]", ''[[Theory and Event]]'', Vol. 4.3: 2000.
* {{cite journal
| title = War on the State: Stirner's and Deleuze's Anarchism
| journal = Anarchist Studies
| volume = 9
| issue = 2
| pages = 147–64
}}
* {{cite journal
| title = Spectres of Stirner: a Contemporary Critique of Ideology
| journal = Journal of Political Ideologies
| volume = 6
| issue = 3
| url = http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/56DPQVBRX1J5LRYE.pdf
| pages= 309–330
| doi= 10.1080/13569310120083026
| year = 2001
| author = Newman, Saul
}} 2001
* {{cite journal
| title = Derrida and the Deconstruction of Authority
| journal = Philosophy and Social Criticism
| volume = 27
| issue = 3
| url = http://psc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/3/1
| format = abstract
}} 2001.
* {{cite journal
| title = Max Stirner and the Politics of Posthumanism
| journal = Contemporary Political Theory
| volume = 1
| issue = 2
| pages = 221–238
| issn= 1470-8914
| url = http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cpt/journal/v1/n2/pdf/9300038a.pdf
| doi = 10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300038
| year = 2002
| author = Newman, Saul
}} 2002.
* {{cite journal
| title = Politics of the ego: Stirner's critique of liberalism
| journal = Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
| volume = 5
| issue = 3
| pages = 1
| doi = 10.1080/13698230410001702632
| url = http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a714039615
| year = 2002
| author = Newman, Saul
}} October 2002.
* {{cite journal
| title = The Politics of Postanarchism
| journal = [[Institute for Anarchist Studies]]
| url = http://ssevillano.free.fr/annexe_3/the_politics_of_postanarchism.doc
| laysource =http://64.233.179.104/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:7JghOIXobBsJ:ssevillano.free.fr/annexe_3/the_politics_of_postanarchism.doc+author:saul+author:newman
| format = {{Dead link|date=May 2008}}
}} 2003.
* {{cite journal
| title = Empiricism, pluralism, and politics in Deleuze and Stirner
| journal = Idealistic studies
| volume = 33
| issue = 1
| pages = 9–24
| issn = 0046-8541
| url = http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=15045044
}} 2003.
* {{cite journal
| title = Stirner and Foucault: Toward a Post-Kantian Freedom
| journal = Postmodern Culture
| volume = 13
| issue = 2
| issn = 1053-1920
| url = http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v013/13.2newman.html
}} 2003.
* {{cite journal
| title = Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State
| journal = Anarchist Studies
| volume = 12
| issue = 1
| url = http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1537224&mode=nested&tid=9
}} 2004.
* {{cite journal
| title = New Reflections on the Theory of Power: A Lacanian Perspective
| journal = Contemporary Political Theory
| volume = 3
| issue = 2
| doi=10.1057
| url = http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14708914/2004/00000003/00000002/art00004
| pages=148–167(20)
| doi_brokendate = 2008-06-23
}} August 2004.
* {{cite journal
| title = Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Future of Radical Politics
| journal = SubStance
| volume = 113
| url = http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/v036/36.2newman.pdf
}} 2007.
=== Books ===
* ''From Bakunin to Lacan. Anti-authoritarianism and the dislocation of power.'' Lanham MD: Lexington Books 2001
* ''Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought.'' New theories of the political. London: Routledge 2005
* ''Unstable Universalities: Postmodernity and Radical Politics.'' Manchester: Manchester University Press 2007
== Footnotes ==
<div class="references-small">
'''<small>I</small>.''' {{Note_label|A|I|none}} For reviews of ''From Bakunin to Lacan'' see:
* ''From Bakunin to Lacan: anti-authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power.'' Review by Simon Tormey. Contemporary Political Theory, October 2003, Volume 2, Number 3, Pages 359-361.
* ''Lacanian Anarchism and ther Left.'' Review by Todd May, Theory & Event 6:1, 2002.
* ''From Bakunin to Lacan: anti-authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power.'' Review by Nathan Widder, History of Political Thought, 23 (4): 2002.
== Quotes ==
* "Blair you twat!"
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==External links==
*[http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/politics/staff/newman.php Profile of Saul Newman] at [[Goldsmiths College, University of London]]
*[http://www.livejournal.com/community/siyahi Interview by Sureyyya Evren, 12th April 2005]
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