Spirit of Revolution

Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Political Science, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University.Stephen D. Seely is a PhD candidate in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University

• Introduction1. Legacies of Erotic Transformation: Feminism and Revolution2. Burning Problems of Our Time: Revolution, Erotic Ethics, and Political Spirituality3. An Other Future: The Erotics of Revolution, The Psychosis of Colonialism, and the Haunting Promise of a New Humanity4. Undertaking Man, Making the Human: Toward a New CeremonyConclusion

"A remarkable book, worthy of the twenty-first century and the new demands placed on theory and practice. Cornell and Seely argue for a spirit of revolution that is at once wary of the false hegemony of man, while nevertheless insisting on the promise of a new politics that finds its energy in sexual difference and queerness. This book will generate lively debate; it is not one more “turn” towards inhuman, posthuman or non-human materialisms, but it is all the more revolutionary for holding on to struggles of the polity."Claire Colebrook, Penn State"The Spirit of Revolution is a courageous, very engaging and timely work that packs a real revolutionary punch. Supplementing political economy, the authors speak directly and brilliantly to the erotic, racial, and spiritual challenges of self-transformation that must be integral parts of any attempt at re-imagining the urgently needed socialist alternative to contemporary capitalism. This is engaged philosophy at its best, with great power to expand consciousness and deepen our ethical responses to the planetary dimensions of crisis that we must now address. An extremely important philosophical work."Paget Henry, Brown University