Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London, UK.

• October 27 1960Introduction1. Conscious Resistance2. Violent Resistance3. Resistant Subjectivities4.Total Domination and the Capacity to Resist5.The Contemporary Capacity to Resist Outside the LawBibliographyIndex

There could not be a more timely moment for this book ... Acutely attuned to this context, which was unfolding as he wrote, the philosopher Howard Caygill offers a meditation on the history of resistance as idea and lived experience, a term which, as he states at the outset, is "strangely unanalysed" ... the book is wholly inspired by the spirit of resistance whose often unhappy trajectories it so brilliantly describes ... It is his unique mix of caution and enthusiasm, his avoidance of blind utopianism and of defeatism alike, which makes this book so important ... What kind of human being, On Resistance prompts us to ask, does resistance promote? Not only what do we want to achieve, but who do we want to be? ... On Resistance is as much an act as a philosophy of defiance. It will be indispensable for anyone thinking about resistance in our times, not least for demonstrating so profoundly that, for all its perils, resistance still possesses its "own necessities, its own affirmations and its own joy".

Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London, UK.

• October 27 1960Introduction1. Conscious Resistance2. Violent Resistance3. Resistant Subjectivities4.Total Domination and the Capacity to Resist5.The Contemporary Capacity to Resist Outside the LawBibliographyIndex

There could not be a more timely moment for this book ... Acutely attuned to this context, which was unfolding as he wrote, the philosopher Howard Caygill offers a meditation on the history of resistance as idea and lived experience, a term which, as he states at the outset, is "strangely unanalysed" ... the book is wholly inspired by the spirit of resistance whose often unhappy trajectories it so brilliantly describes ... It is his unique mix of caution and enthusiasm, his avoidance of blind utopianism and of defeatism alike, which makes this book so important ... What kind of human being, On Resistance prompts us to ask, does resistance promote? Not only what do we want to achieve, but who do we want to be? ... On Resistance is as much an act as a philosophy of defiance. It will be indispensable for anyone thinking about resistance in our times, not least for demonstrating so profoundly that, for all its perils, resistance still possesses its "own necessities, its own affirmations and its own joy".

Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London, UK.

• October 27 1960Introduction1. Conscious Resistance2. Violent Resistance3. Resistant Subjectivities4.Total Domination and the Capacity to Resist5.The Contemporary Capacity to Resist Outside the LawBibliographyIndex

There could not be a more timely moment for this book ... Acutely attuned to this context, which was unfolding as he wrote, the philosopher Howard Caygill offers a meditation on the history of resistance as idea and lived experience, a term which, as he states at the outset, is "strangely unanalysed" ... the book is wholly inspired by the spirit of resistance whose often unhappy trajectories it so brilliantly describes ... It is his unique mix of caution and enthusiasm, his avoidance of blind utopianism and of defeatism alike, which makes this book so important ... What kind of human being, On Resistance prompts us to ask, does resistance promote? Not only what do we want to achieve, but who do we want to be? ... On Resistance is as much an act as a philosophy of defiance. It will be indispensable for anyone thinking about resistance in our times, not least for demonstrating so profoundly that, for all its perils, resistance still possesses its "own necessities, its own affirmations and its own joy".