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Full Idea
Anarchism in the 1960s was libertarian and organised around issues of sexual liberation. That moment has passed. People are and should be organising around responsibility.
Gist of Idea
Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility
Source
Simon Critchley (Impossible Objects: interviews [2012], 3)
Book Ref
Critchley,Simon: 'Impossible Objects: interviews' [Politty 2012], p.55
A Reaction
So there are two types of anarchism, focused on freedom or on responsibility. An organisation like Greenpeace might represent the latter.
Related Idea
Idea 20450 The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [Critchley]
| 20446 | Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics [Critchley] |
| 20449 | Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life [Critchley] |
| 20448 | Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life [Critchley] |
| 20447 | The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? [Critchley] |
| 20452 | Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility [Critchley] |
| 20450 | The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [Critchley] |
| 20451 | Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics [Critchley] |
| 20454 | Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English [Critchley] |
| 20455 | Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy [Critchley] |
| 20456 | Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands [Critchley] |