TY - BOOK ID - 85464366 TI - Disobedience in Western political thought : a genealogy PY - 2013 SN - 1107241405 1139136925 1107022649 1107606691 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Civil disobedience KW - Political science KW - Political philosophy KW - Civil resistance KW - Disobedience, Civil KW - Government, Resistance to KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85464366 AB - The global age is distinguished by disobedience, from the protests in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the anti-G8 and anti-WTO demonstrations. In this book, Raffaele Laudani offers a systematic review of how disobedience has been conceptualised, supported, and criticised throughout history. Laudani documents the appearance of 'disobedience' in the political lexicon from ancient times to the present, and explains the word's manifestations, showing how its semantic wealth transcended its liberal interpretations in the 1960s and 1970s. Disobedience, Laudani finds, is not merely an alternative to revolution and rebellion, but a different way of conceiving radical politics, one based on withdrawal of consent and defection in relation to the established order. ER -