LEADER 02433oam 2200277z- 450 001 9910160266303321 005 20230913112557.0 010 $a1-55164-617-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000001026033 035 $a(BIP)005543797 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001026033 100 $a20190218c2017uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 14$aThe Murray Bookchin Reader 210 $cBlack Rose Books 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 311 $a1-55164-118-6 330 8 $aThis collection provides an overview of the thought of the foremost social theorist and political philosopher of the libertarian left today. Best known for introducing ecology as a concept relevant to radical political thought in the early 1960s, Murray Bookchin was the first to propose, in the innovative and coherent body of ideas that he has called "social ecology", that a liberatory society would also have to be an ecological one. His writings span five decades and encompass subject matter of remarkable breadth. Bookchin's writings on revolutionary philosophy, politics and history are far less known than the specific controversies that have surrounded him, but deserve far greater attention. Despite Bookchin's critical engagement with both Marxism and anarchism, his political philosophy, known as libertarian municipalism, draws on the best of both for the emancipatory tools to build a democratic, libertarian alternative. His nature philosophy is an organic outlook of generation, development, and evolution that grounds human beings in natural evolution yet, contrary to today's fashionable anti-humanism, places them firmly at its summit. Bookchin's anthropological writings trace the rise of hierarchy and domination out of egalitarian societies, while his historical writings cover important chapters in the European revolutionary tradition. Consistent throughout Bookchin's work is a search for ways to replace today's capitalist society--which disenchants most of humanity for the benefit of the few and is poisoning the natural world--with a more rational and humane alternative. The selections in this reader constitute a sampling from the writings of one of the most pivotal thinkers of our era. 610 $aPolitical science 610 $aPhilosophy 676 $a304.2 700 $aBiehl$b Janet$0306104 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160266303321 996 $aThe Murray Bookchin Reader$93595838 997 $aUNINA