Stop Thief!

Catherine Malabou is Professor of Philosophy at Kingston University London.

• Translator’s Note1    Surveying the Horizon2    Dissociating Anarchism from Anarchy3    On the Virtue of Chorus Leaders: Archy and Anarchy in Aristotle’s Politics4    Ontological Anarchy. From Greece to the Andes: Traveling with Reiner Schürmann5    Ethical Anarchy: The Heteronomies of Emmanuel Levinas6    “Responsible Anarchism”: Jacques Derrida’s Drive for Power7    Anarcheology: Michel Foucault’s Last Government8    Profanatory Anarchy: Giorgio Agamben’s Zone9    Staging Anarchy: Jacques Rancière Without WitnessesConclusion: Being an AnarchistNotesIndex

“At a time when the global order of power starts to become anarchic, Malabou attests to the importance and timeliness of anarchism today. In this brilliant intervention, she rethinks anarchism through the problematic of ontological anarchy, breathing new life into this forgotten tradition.”Saul Newman, Goldsmiths University of London“Stop Thief! is essential reading for all those committed to understanding and overcoming historic rifts between anarchy (popularly identified with leaderless politics, anti-globalization movements and libertarianism) and anarchism as philosophy.  Older, semi-forgotten anarchist ideas are brought back and rendered re-usable for a contemporary revolutionary praxis. And with these reinvigorated conceptual frameworks, protean forms of revolt come into relief, positioned against the toxic fusion of ‘government violence and the uberization of life’ that underwrites late liberal, authoritarian political cultures of today.”Emily Apter, New York University“Stop Thief! is clear and compelling, and its take-no-prisoners style starts to embody a new continental philosophy.”Times Literary Supplement“Malabou rigorously interrogates how anarchism has been inherited, where in the conceptual scheme of things it has been located, and how it has been articulated and defined, critiqued, and so on, throughout philosophical discourse, from ancient roots and origins to the contemporary era.”Marginalia Review of Books