Abstract
There are two aims to the present paper. The first is to support the assertion that
traditional justifications of revolution, rebellion and civil disobedience, though not wrong, are
culturally inappropriate. The second is to outline, in the most basic of forms, what a “culturally
appropriate” form of political resistance would require. The latter aim will be attempted by offering
a counter-enlightenment model of resistance, derived in a large part from a Hegelian reading of
Sartre's later work on groups, appropriate to the cultural conditions of late modernity.