Confrontational Citizenship: Reflections on Hatred, Rage, Revolution, and Revolt
In: SUNY Series in New Political Science Ser
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction Anger, Hatred, and Rage in Dark Times -- Chapter 1 In Defense of Hatred -- Hatred -- Hatred and Accountability: Two Examples -- Spectacular Violence -- "An Excellent Example" -- Against Carl Schmitt and Samuel P. Huntington -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Immanuel Kant on Thinking without the Constraint of Rules -- Introduction -- Revolution -- Enlightened Thinking -- Introducing Genius -- Revolution and Genius -- Response to Objections -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Rage -- Introduction -- Frederick Douglass -- Douglass and Rage -- Rage on Stage -- Narrating Rage -- Tactical Rage -- Rage as Critique -- Defending Rage -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 W.E.B. Du Bois on Revolt as a Way of Life -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Black Revolt: Historical Context -- Du Bois: Political Moderate or Theorist of Revolt? -- Revolt -- Democracy as Revolt or, Look! A "Free" Negro -- Critique and Truth Telling as Modes of Revolt -- Revolt and Pedagogy -- White Democracy, White Capitalism -- Fear of Domestic and International Race Revolt -- Revolt as a Way of Life -- Militant Citizens -- Response to Objections -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Hannah Arendt on Putting the Political Bank into Politics -- Introduction -- Resistance -- Authority -- Putting the Political Back into Politics -- Revolution -- Arendt Beyond Rawls and Foucault -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Gloria Anzaldúa Singing the Song of Herself -- Introduction -- The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Life -- Political Writing -- Culture of Resistance -- Freedom -- Beltrán's Critique of Anzaldúa -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolt -- Paulo Freire -- "I'm Neutral" -- Illiteracy -- Fundamental Inversion -- Pedagogy and Revolt -- Democracy without the Demos? -- Conclusion