Saul Newman 3017845 223650775 2008-07-05T02:22:36Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other {{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!" </div> ==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] {{Anarchism2}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Newman, Saul}} [[Category:1972 births]] [[Category:Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London]] [[Category:Anarchist academics]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Postanarchists]] [[Category:Poststructuralists]] [[de:Saul Newman]] [[es:Saul Newman]]