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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464372103321

Autore

Knowles Rob <1946-, >

Titolo

Political economy from below : economic thought in communitarian anarchism, 1840-1914 / / Rob Knowles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-40892-0

1-135-40899-8

0-203-95551-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Collana

Studies in new political economy

Disciplina

335/.83

Soggetti

Anarchism - Economic aspects

Communitarianism - Economic aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-426) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Chapter One  Introduction; Chapter Two Demanding the Possible: Unraveling the State and  'Economic Thought'; Chapter Three  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: From Caricatures to a Portrait; Chapter Four  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: 'A Continual Apostleship'; Chapter Five  Positively Proudhon: His Economic Ideas; Chapter Six  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: The 'Agro-Industrial Federation'; Chapter Seven  Alexander Herzen and Mikhail Bakunin: ""intelligentsia i narod""

Chapter Eight  Elisee Reclus and Peter Kropotkin: Evolution and RevolutionChapter Nine  Jean Grave: ""Society on the Morrow of the Revolution""; Chapter Ten  Leo Tolstoy: The 'Ant Brotherhood' and the Green Stick; Chapter Eleven  Conclusion: A Living Tradition; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Communitarian anarchism is a generic form of socialism that denies the need for a state or any other authority over the individual from above, and which requires absolute belief that the individual cannot exist outside of a community of others. This book suggests that the communitarian anarchists of the nineteenth century developed and articulated a distinct tradition of economic thought. The period of this



study begins with the first major writing of the French communitarian anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, in 1840 and ends with the temporary burial of anarchist theorizing at the beginning