A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze

CONTENTS

Preface: The Translation Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jesse Cohn
Preface ...........................................19
A................................................ 23
A priori/a posteriori – Action (practice) – Active minorities – Affinitary (affinity groups) – Affinity (elective affinity) – Affirmation – Alienation – Alliance – Altruism – Analogy (homology) – Anarchism of the right – Anarchism – Anarchist chemistry – Anarcho-syndicalism – Anarchy – Anguish – Anti-authoritarian/anti-power – Anti-something – Anti-speciesism – Apeiron – Appetites – Application – Arrangement (collective arrangement) – Association/disassociation – Autonomy
B ...............................................41
Balance – Base (horizontality) – Becoming – Being – Beyond one’s own limits (beyond what one can do) – Body (human body) – Bombs – Boss – Brain
C............................................... 49
Capital – Capture – Care for the self – Causes – Chaos – Chaplin – Charge of nature – Christian anarchism (religious anarchism) – Circumstances – Class (social, sexual, generational, etc.) – Class struggle – Classification – Collective (social) – Collective beings – Collective reason (public reason) – Common concepts – Common sense/good sense – Commons (common project, common arrangement) – Communication – Commutation – Components – Composed unity – Composition – Concept – Conformism – Consciousness – Constraint – Contract – Contradictions, contradictory – Contrariety – Convention – Core – Culture – Cynicism
D ...............................................65
Daoism – Death – Definition – Dependency – Desire – Determination – Determinism – Devil (diabolic, demons) – Dialectic – Differences – Dignity – Direct – Direct action – Direct democracy – Direction of the conscience – Disassociation – Discipline (self-discipline) – Domination – Dualism – Duty of memory
E................................................75
Economy – Effectiveness – Ego – Élan vital – Emancipation (affirmation) – Encounters – Ends/means – Energy – Entelechy – Entity – Equality – Equilibrium of forces – Eternal Return – Eternity – Ethics – Evaluation – Evanescent (transitory) – Event – Experience – Experts (scientists) – Expression – Exterior/interior (external/internal, extrinsic/ intrinsic)
F ...............................................91
Federalism – Feedback [rétroaction] – Focal point (focalization) – Fold – Force (collective force, collective being) – Fractiousness – Free will – Freedom – Friends of our friends
G ...............................................99
Genealogy – General (and insurrectionary) strike – General assembly – Generosity – Gesture – Given moment – God – Good sense – Good/bad [bon/mauvais] – Good/evil [bien/mal] – Government – Great Evening – Groups (groupings) – Guilt
H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Hagiography – Herd – Heteronomy – Hierarchy – Hinter-world – History – Homology – Horizontality – Humanism
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Idea – Ideal (utopia) – Identity – Ideomania – Idiosyncrasy – Imaginary – Immanence – Immediate – Imperative mandate – Imperceptible – Implication (altruism) – Implicit – Impotence/powerlessness [impuissance] – Impulse – Indefinite – Indeterminacy/Indeterminate – Indignation – Indiscernibles – Individual – Individuation – Instinct – Insubordination – Insurrection – Integral pacifism – Interior (internal) – Inner world – Interval – Intimate (intimacy, intimate circle) – Intimate being [être intime] (eternity) – Intuition– Irrational
J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Joy/sadness – Judgment – Justice – Justification
L ..............................................131
Labor – Laboratory – Lack – Leader – Liberalism – Life (evanescent) – Limitlessness of the limited – Limits – Localism – Locking horns [Prise de têtes]
M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Main front/second front – Manual/intellectual – Mass (masses) – Master/ slave – Matter – Mediation – Midst of things – Milieu (libertarian milieu) – Militant – Mobility – Monad – Monism (pluralism) – More than oneself – Movement (becoming) – Multiple – Multiplicity – Multitude
N ..............................................155
Natural laws – Naturalism – Nature – Necessity (freedom) – Negation – Neoconfucianism – Neoliberals [libertariens] – Nodes of forces – Nomad – Nomos – Non–violence
O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Objective – Objects – One (unity) – Oppression – Order (system) – Organization – Other (the other) – Outside/inside
P...............................................169
Particular – Passage to the act – Past – Patriarchy – People – Person (personalism) – Point of view – Perspectivism (perspective) – Perversion – Pity – Place/site – Plane of immanence (plane of consistency, plane of composition) – Planes of reality (plane of composition, worlds) – Plastic force – Platform, platformism – Plenitude – Pluralism (libertarian pluralism) – Plurality – Political commissar – Political vitalism – Positive anarchy – Possession (property) – Possibilities – Potential – Power [pouvoir] – Power (collective power) [puissance/puissance collective] – Power of the outside – Practical sense – Practice – Preindividual – Private/public – Pro-feminist – Prodigality – Project – Propaganda by the deed – Property – Pro–something – Psychopathic – Public confession – Put to death
R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Raison d’être – Reaction – Refusal – Relation of forces – Rational – Relativism – Rendering of accounts – Repetition – Representation (representative democracy) – Repugnance – Repulsion – Reserve of being – Respect – Responsibility – Responsible – Ressentiment – Resultant – Revocability – Revolt – Revolution – Revolutionary syndicalism – Right wing/left wing – Right/law (contracts, conventions) – Rupture
S ..............................................213
Sadness/joy – Science – Scientific laws (causes) – Scientists – Secession – Secrecy/transparency –Selection – Self – Self–criticism – Self–discipline – Self–improvement – Self–management (self–government) – Self– sufficiency – Sensibility – Sensitivity – Separatism [non–mixité] – Serial dialectic – Series (seriation) – Servants of the people (of the State or any other so-called “higher” cause or authority) – Sexuality – Signification – Singularity – Situation – Slavery/freedom – Social – Social bond – Social Explosion – Social Revolution – Solidarity – Solitude – Species activity – Spontaneism – Spontaneity (spontaneity of action) – State – Statistics (mathematics) – Stoppage – Subject (revolutionary subject) – Subjectivity – Subversion – Suffering – Superabundance – Symbols (signs) – Syndicate (revolutionary) – Synthesis, synthesism (platform, platformism)
T.............................................. 239
Temperament (idiosyncrasy) – Tension – Terrorism – Theory/practice – Thing – Time – To be separated from oneself – To do all that one can/To go to the limits of one’s capacity – To risk one’s life – To the whipping post! – Tools/ weapons – Totality/totalitarianism – Tradition – Transcendence – Transduction – Transindividual – Transparency – Trust
U ..............................................257
Unconscious – Unity – Universal – Universal causality – Univocal being – Utilitarianism – Utopia
V...............................................261
Vanguard – Vengeance – Violence – Virility – Vital – Voluntarism – Voluntary servitude
W............................................. 265
War (warlike) – Weapons – Will – Will to power – Worker (workerism) – Worker separatism – Worlds (plurality of worlds)