1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790823703321

Autore

Biehl Janet <1953->

Titolo

Ecology or catastrophe : the life of Murray Bookchin / / Janet Biehl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-19-934250-4

0-19-934249-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

333.72092

Soggetti

Ecologists - United States

Environmentalists - United States

Social ecology - United States

Environmentalism - United States

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Ecology or Catastrophe: THE LIFE OF MURRAY BOOKCHIN; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Young Bolshevik; 2 Labor Organizer; 3 Rethinker; 4 Eco-Decentralist; 5 Eco-Anarchist; 6 Counterculture Elder; 7 Man of the Moment; 8 Social Ecologist; 9 Antinuclear Activist; 10 Municipalist; 11 Green Politico; 12 Assembly Democrat; 13 Historian; Epilogue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Murray Bookchin was not only one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century--he was also one of the most prescient. From industrial agriculture to nuclear radiation, Bookchin has been at the forefront of every major ecological issue since the very beginning, often proposing a solution before most people even recognized there was a problem. Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin is the first biography of this groundbreaking environmental and political thinker. Author Janet Biehl worked as his collaborator and copyeditor for 19 years,