Saul Newman

Saul Newman (born 1972) is a political theorist and central post-anarchist thinker.

Newman coined the term "post-anarchism" as a general term for political philosophies filtering 19th century anarchism through a 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 B.A. from the University of Sydney, and his 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 Foucault, Lacan, Deleuze, and 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 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/palgrave.cpt.9300105
url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14708914/2004/00000003/00000002/art00004
pages=148–167(20) 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

I. 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 the 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!"

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]