1.

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786310703321

Autore

Shen Lindsay

Titolo

Knowledge Is pleasure [[electronic resource] ] : a life of Florence Ayscough / / Lindsay Shen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, 2012

ISBN

988-8180-20-7

988-220-414-7

1-283-87384-2

988-220-881-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 161 p. ) : ill. (some col.) ;

Collana

RAS China in Shanghai series

Disciplina

951.04092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Shanghailanders Guns, gardens and long-gone houses -- Images The tastemaker -- Words The 'sensuous realist' -- Gardens and the grass hut 'A liberal education' -- After China holding open the door.

Sommario/riassunto

Florence Ayscough -- poet, translator, Sinologist, Shanghailander, "sensual realist", avid collector, pioneering photographer and early feminist champion of women's rights in China. Ayscough's modernist translations of the classical poets still command respect, her ethnographic studies of the lives of Chinese women still engender feminist critiques over three quarters of a century later and her collections of Chinese ceramics and objets now form an important part of several American museums' Asian art collections. Raised in Shanghai in an archetypal family in the late nineteenth century, Ayscough was to become anything but a typical foreigner in China. Encouraged by the New England poet Amy Lowell, she became a much sought-after translator in the early years of the new century, not least for her radical



interpretations of the Tang dynasty poet Tu Fu published by the renowned literary critic Harriet Monroe. She later moved on to record China and particularly Chinese women using the new technology of photography, turn the Royal Asiatic Society's Shanghai library into the best on the China Coast and build several impressive collections featuring jars from the Dowager Empress Ci Xi, Ming and Qing ceramics. By the time of her death, Florence Ayscough left a legacy of collecting and scholarship unrivalled by any other foreign woman in China before or since. In this biography, Lindsay Shen recovers Ayscough for posterity and returns her to us as a woman of amazing intellectual vibrancy and strength.