Saul Newman (born 22 March 1972) is a British

political theorist A political theorist is someone who engages in constructing or evaluating political theory, including political philosophy. Theorists may be academics or independent scholars. Ancient * Aristotle * Chanakya * Cicero * Confucius * Mencius * ...

who writes on

post-anarchism Contemporary anarchism within the history of anarchism is the period of the anarchist movement continuing from the end of World War II and into the present. Since the last third of the 20th century, anarchists have been involved in anti-globalis ...

. He is professor of political theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Newman took up the term "post-anarchism" as a general term for political philosophies filtering 19th century

anarchism Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...

through a

post-structuralist Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of Power (social and poli ...

lens, and later popularized it through his 2001 book '' From Bakunin to Lacan''. Thus he rejects a number of concepts traditionally associated with anarchism, including

essentialism Essentialism is the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their Identity (philosophy), identity. In early Western thought, Platonic idealism held that all things have such an "essence"—an Theory of forms, "idea" or "f ...

, a "positive"

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, and the concept of

revolution In political science, a revolution (, 'a turn around') is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's class, state, ethnic or religious structures. According to sociologist Jack Goldstone, all revolutions contain "a common set of elements ...

. The links between poststructuralism and anarchism have also been developed by thinkers like Todd May and Lewis Call. He received his B.A. from the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

, and his Ph.D in

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from the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1949. The university comprises seven faculties, through which it offers bachelor's, master's and docto ...

. His work has been translated into Turkish, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese and Serbo-Croatian, and has been the subject of a number of debates amongst anarchist theorists and activists as well as academics.

Works

* '' From Bakunin to Lacan. Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power.'' Lanham MD: Lexington Books 2001 * ''Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought: New Theories of the Political''. London: Routledge 2005 * ''Unstable Universalities: Postmodernity and Radical Politics.'' Manchester: Manchester University Press 2007 * ''Politics Most Unusual: Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the 'War on Terror. (Co-authored with Michael Levine and Damian Cox). New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009 * ''The Politics of Post Anarchism''. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press: 2010 * (ed.): ''Max Stirner.'' Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2011 * ''Postanarchism'' London: Polity 2015 * ''Political Theology: a Critical Introduction.'' London: Polity 2018 * ''Post-Truth Populism: a New Political Paradigm.'' Palgrave Macmillan 2024 - ISBN 9783031641770

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* 1972 births Living people Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London British anarchists British anti-capitalists Postanarchists Post-structuralists University of New South Wales alumni 21st-century anarchists {{UK-writer-stub