Description: Working at the point of contact and conflict between socialist and anarcho-philosophical traditions, Defective Institutions offers an alternative to political institutionalism in an aberrant republicanism comprised of defective institutions, run through with the necessity of their abolition
Brief description: Jacques Lezra is Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English and Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent publications are República salvaje (2019), On the Nature of Marx's Things (2018), Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017), and Contra todos los fueros de la Muerte (2016).
Review Quotes: Defective Institutions. . . makes a daring, significant, and virtuosic contribution to contemporary discussions of abolitionist thought, critical theory, and political philosophy.-- "H-Net Reviews"