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

Maria Kakogianni
Translated by Robert Hurley
Release date: October 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9997930-9-6

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 deduces a metaphor about 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 a Starry Sky is a book propelled in 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.

Read an excerpt here.

Maria Kakogianni is a leading French philosopher. She has published numerous books, including Entretien platonicien with Alain Badiou, Le Printemps précaire des peuples, and Surgeons et autres pousses. This is her first book published in English.

Robert Hurley has produced the standard translations for multiple generations of French philosophy and critical theory, including the works of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, the Invisible Committee, and numerous others.