Militant Intellect

Andrés Fabián Henao Castro is associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Antigone in the Americas: Democracy, Sexuality and Death in the Settler Colonial Present (2021) and his research has also been published in differences, Settler Colonial Studies, Theoria, Theory & Event, Representation, Theatre Survey, Contemporary Political Theory, and Hypatia, among others.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Militant IntellectPart I: RevolutionChapter 1. The Just Militant: Plato’s Philosopher SovereignChapter 2. The Critical Militant: Karl Marx’s CommunistChapter 3. The Decolonial Militant: Frantz Fanon’s RebelPart II: DifferenceChapter 4. The Deconstructive Militant: Jacques Derrida’s SpecterChapter 5. The Feminist Militant: Gayatri Spivak’s SubalternChapter 6. The Fugitive Militant: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward LifePart III: UniversalityChapter 7. The Egalitarian Militant: Jacques Rancière’s Ignorant SchoolmasterChapter 8. The Nonviolent Grieving Militant: Judith Butler’s Antigone/IsmeneChapter 9. The Desirous Militant: Jordy Rosenberg’s FoxEpilogue: Militants and/as ComradesNotesBibliographyIndex

A crucial intervention in political theory, Marxism, and critique that brings together decolonial praxis with the deconstructive indeterminacy of the value-form in original and generative ways. Andrés Fabián Henao Castro offers a committed, radical perspective on the too-frequently dematerialized category of intellectual labor. Elegant, clear language to its reader—a comrade in book-form sure to accompany a wide range of thinkers in struggle.