One Summer's Night, Under the Starry Sky: Reflections on Anarchy and Revolution

"We hardly see the stars anymore. What revolution can be dreamed under an empty sky?"

In this short essay, at once scholarly and accessible, philosopher Maria Kakogianni proposes to refresh our ideas about revolution and anarchy.

Starting from a simple yet terrible observation—that we hardly see any stars anymore—she draws out a metaphor for the world: we live in a dis-astrous age, an age devoid of stars.

The book is divided into twenty-two short sections, like beams extending in all directions. Along the way, we encounter Catherine Malabou and Margaret Thatcher, Kant and Blanqui, Vincent Bolloré and the Invisible Committee. Themes include everyday fascism, pirate pleasures, Plato, and even Tai Chi.

A book of politics, poetry, and philosophy, One Summer's Night, Under the Starry Sky is propelled at its heart by the need to invent a positive and durable anarchy, with its feet firm on the ground and its head nourished by the stars.