Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism

Marginalized Voices and Dissent

Saladdin Ahmed

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
25 August 2022

Ethics & moral philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Political science & theory

As we face new and debilitating catastrophes caused by capitalism and nation-state politics, Saladdin Ahmed argues that our only hope is to create space for a new world by negating the existing order. To achieve this new society, Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism outlines a practical philosophy of change that rejects ideologies of false hope and passive hopelessness.

Drawing public attention to the decisiveness of the present historical moment, Ahmed introduces a critical theory of social emancipation based on post-Soviet revolutionary movements that have emerged at the margins of the global social order. The rise of socially and politically exclusionary movements in multiple parts of the world, ongoing ecological crisis, anti-Black racism, and the concretization of despair brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic demand a new approach to revolution, which Ahmed argues, must be rooted in the experiences of the most oppressed in society.

Realizing the epistemological potential of emancipatory movements, Ahmed rejects dystopian nihilism and positions our focus on marginalized spaces to break out of capitalist totalitarianism.

By: Saladdin Ahmed
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350269286
ISBN 10: 135026928X
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 25 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I: Crises 1. Philosophy and Plan of the Present Work 2. The Indispensability of Universal Anti-fascist Solidarity: A Return to Normal is Neither Possible nor Desirable 3. The Two-Head Beast of Capitalism and Nation-Statism 4. Capitalism and the Ecological Deadlock 5. Culturalism as an Ideological Crisis Part II: Negations 6. Refuting the Question of Alternative 7. The Marginalized and their Cosmopolitan Episteme of Emancipation 8. Postnihilist Theses on Revolution Summarized Bibliography Index

Saladdin Ahmed is a critical theorist and philosopher, teaching political theory and international relations at Union College, Schenectady, USA.

Reviews for Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism: Marginalized Voices and Dissent

In this challenging and courageous book, Saladdin Ahmed thinks through the terms and textures of 'negation'. He acutely interrogates thereby collective contemporary crises, global and planetary. Via a reinvigorated post-nihilism, the work articulates formations of critical solidarity with marginal subjects while unframing fascism as an 'ideology form'. Such formidable conviction is rare in our present. * Saurabh Dube, Distinguished Professor-Researcher in the Centre of Asian and African Studies, The College of Mexico, Mexico *