{"product_id":"revolution-and-restoration-the-politics-of-anachronism-paperback","title":"Revolution and Restoration: The Politics of Anachronism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMassimiliano Tomba\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a time when terms like restoration, religion, authority, obligations, and natural law--once the rallying cries of the most emancipatory movements--are increasingly coopted by conservative forces, \u003ci\u003eRevolution and Restoration\u003c\/i\u003e offers a thought-provoking account of how \"outdated\" concepts can ignite radical energy and collective action. Through both historical and contemporary examples, the book elaborates the concrete possibilities for reimagining politics and society that emerge out of the clash between incompatible legal and economic structures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt its core, Tomba's book confronts the very foundations of the modern state and its three pillars: property, democracy, and citizenship. These pillars, long celebrated in the Western canon, are nevertheless mechanisms of exclusion: property is the denial of communal access, representative democracy the marginalization of the \u003ci\u003edemos\u003c\/i\u003e from decision-making, and citizenship the exclusion of the foreigner. \u003ci\u003eRevolution and Restoration \u003c\/i\u003ecritiques these pillars to show how new concepts and political possibilities that emerge from political and social conflicts hold the potential to transcend and remake democracies in crisis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRevolution and Restoration: The Politics of Anachronism \u003ci\u003eis available from the Knowledge Unlatched on an open-access basis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We must remember, salvage, refuse, remake. Tomba shows us how. He gives us a past--many pasts--and with them, many far better futures. This work salvages diverse legacies: from workers, from the indigenous, from rebellious peasants, from the poor of every continent, from religious and secular, democrat, communist, and anarchist. As he guides us through these lost pasts, we can see decolonization overcoming dispossession, and older, more capacious ideas of property replacing power and mindless oligarchy. He points us toward earlier work in building worlds where people rule and money is silent. We can have these worlds.\"--\u003cb\u003eAnne Norton\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Pennsylvania \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRevolution and Restoration \u003c\/i\u003eis a work of stunning sophistication and subtlety. It makes methodological, conceptual, and philosophical contributions of the first order that are richly illustrated by empirical cases. The book will be read by philosophers, political theorists, historians, and anthropologists and broadly by intellectuals.\"--\u003cb\u003eUday Mehta\u003c\/b\u003e, CUNY Graduate Center \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a time when terms like restoration, religion, authority, obligations, and natural law--once the rallying cries of the most emancipatory movements--are increasingly coopted by conservative forces, \u003ci\u003eRevolution and Restoration\u003c\/i\u003e offers a thought-provoking account of how \"outdated\" concepts can ignite radical energy and collective action. Through both historical and contemporary examples, the book elaborates the concrete possibilities for reimagining politics and society that emerge out of the clash between incompatible legal and economic structures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt its core, Tomba's book confronts the very foundations of the modern state and its three pillars: property, democracy, and citizenship. These pillars, long celebrated in the Western canon, are nevertheless mechanisms of exclusion: property is the denial of communal access, representative democracy the marginalization of the \u003ci\u003edemos\u003c\/i\u003e from decision-making, and citizenship the exclusion of the foreigner. \u003ci\u003eRevolution and Restoration \u003c\/i\u003ecritiques these pillars to show how new concepts and political possibilities that emerge from political and social conflicts hold the potential to transcend and remake democracies in crisis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMassimiliano Tomba\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eInsurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMassimiliano Tomba\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eInsurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford, 2019, pbk 2021, co-winner, David and Elaine Spitz Prize), \u003ci\u003eAttraverso la piccolo porta: Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e (Mimesis, 2017), \u003ci\u003eMarx's Temporalities\u003c\/i\u003e (Brill, 2012, Haymarket, 2013), \u003ci\u003eLa vera politica: Kant e Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e (Quodlibet, 2006), and \u003ci\u003eKrise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer. Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken \u003c\/i\u003e(Peter Lang, 2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45519504965734,"sku":"9781531512491","price":60.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/rYXz3zirIY9781531512491.webp?v=1776437438","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/revolution-and-restoration-the-politics-of-anachronism-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}