POLITICS OF LIBERATION

This edited volume hosts a collection of essays first presented at the Politics of Liberation seminar, held in Athens since 2022 under the auspices of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–Office in Greece. The seminar, now in its third year, has featured academics, politicians, journalists, political analysts and activists. The essays are indicative of the work being done and of the multiplicity of perspectives explored. The authors offer critical and often unexpected and unconventional ways to reflect on the meaning and content of liberation in the current predicament. Their contributions range from theoretical accounts of modernity and its staple traits, such as the nation and the state, to the examination of forms of authoritarianism, fascism and the far right, the relationship between democracy and capitalism, the uneven and unequal development of political capitalism, the critique of the concept of gender itself, the experienced realities of queer subjectivities and the practical manifestations of authoritarian neoliberalism.