Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index

Resistance and Freedom -- Why ""Resistance"" Now? -- Nietzsche: ""Who Interprets?"" -- Deleuze: The Beginnings of Poststructuralism -- The Poststructuralist Nietzsche -- Pluralism and the Possibility of Critique -- The Body as Multiple Interpretations -- Post-Critique: Different Stories -- Foucault: ""Essays in Refusal"" -- The Body as Resistance -- Normalization -- The Historicity of Ethics -- The Life-and-Death Struggle in Bio-Power -- Foucault's Social Ontology of Resistance -- Critique as Desubjectivation -- Post-Critique: Judith Butler -- Bourdieu: ""Agents, Not Subjects"" -- Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology -- Bourdieu: Habitus and Field -- Agents vs. Subjects -- Bourdieu vs. Derrida -- Bourdieu's Social Ontology of Resistance -- Post-Critique: Philosophy and Race -- Levinas and Derrida: ""Ethical Resistance"" -- Levinas: Intersubjectivity and the Face -- Levinas: ""Guiltless Responsibility"" -- Derrida and the Deconstruction of 'Death' -- Heidegger on Being-toward-Death -- Levinas's Critique of Heidegger -- Derrida's Rejoinders -- Ethics without Foundations? -- Post-Critique: Derrida and the Messianic -- Post-Marxism: ""Who Is Speaking?"" -- Resisting ""False Consciousness"" -- Critical Theory -- Hegemony Theory: Laclau and Mouffe -- Critical Debates -- Deconstructing the Future -- Post-Critique: Slavoj Zizek -- Postscript: On Deconstructive Genealogy -- The Limits of Pluralism -- Why It Matters

This text serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in postculturalist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussions of this topic