The Philosophy Of Social Ecology

Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849354417

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The Philosophy of Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin Pdf

What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin confronts these questions head on: invoking the ideas of mutualism, self-organization, and unity in diversity, in the service of ever expanding freedom. Refreshingly polemical and deeply philosophical, they take issue with technocratic and mechanistic ways of understanding and relating to, and within, nature. More importantly, they develop a solid, historically and politically based ethical foundation for social ecology, the field that Bookchin himself created and that offers us hope in the midst of our climate catastrophe.

Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1551644711

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Philosophy of Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin Pdf

Author : Andrew Light
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1572303794

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Social Ecology After Bookchin by Andrew Light Pdf

For close to four decades, Murray Bookchin's eco-anarchist theory of social ecology has inspired philosophers and activists working to link environmental concerns with the desire for a free and egalitarian society. New veins of social ecology are now emerging, both extending and challenging Bookchin's ideas. For this instructive book, Andrew Light has assembled leading theorists to contemplate the next steps in the development of social ecology. Topics covered include reassessing ecological ethics, combining social ecology and feminism, building decentralized communities, evaluating new technology, relating theory to activism, and improving social ecology through interaction with other left traditions.

Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCSC:32106018918794

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Social Ecology and Communalism by Murray Bookchin Pdf

A collection of essays by the late Murray Bookchin, the acclaimed writer and activist who spent most of his life working towards a better world. The basic premise of social ecology is to re-harmonise the balance between society and nature, to create a rational ecological society - aims that are increasingly vital and increasingly a part of the mainstream political discourse. This collection of essays give an overview and introduction to his ideas.

Author : Andy Price
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849354950

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Recovering Bookchin by Andy Price Pdf

Recovering Bookchin holds social ecologist Murray Bookchin's ideas and legacy alive. Starting in the early 1960s, Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) shaped a political and ethical response to the emerging ecological crisis, which he called "social ecology." As Bookchin continued to publish and inspire the green movements of the 1980s and 1990s, he found himself embroiled in debates that increasingly had less to do with his ideas and became a pastime for detractors who devised a crude caricature of him as a hopeless sectarian. In Recovering Bookchin, Andy Price dives into these debates and walks readers through the coherent and consistent program of social ecology laid out by Bookchin. This engaging intellectual biography will inspire readers in our age of government and corporate inaction as new feminist, anticapitalist, and people-centered ecological movements are built.

Author : Eric Katz,Andrew Light,David Rothenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 026261149X

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Beneath the Surface by Eric Katz,Andrew Light,David Rothenberg Pdf

This book approaches deep ecology as a philosophy, not as a political, social, or environmental movement.

Author : Damian F. White
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745319645

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Bookchin by Damian F. White Pdf

This is the first comprehensive overview of the work of Murray Bookchin, the left-libertarian social theorist and political ecologist who is widely regarded as the visionary precursor of anti-corporate politics. Bookchin's writing spans fifty years and engages with a wide variety of issues: from ecology to urban planning, from environmental ethics to debates about radical democracy. Weaving insights from Hegel and Marx, Kropotkin and Mumford, Bookchin presents a critical theory whose central utopian message is 'things could be other than they are'. This accessible introduction maps the evolution of Bookchin’s project. It traces his controversial engagements with Marxism, anarchism, critical theory, postmodernism and eco-centric thought. It evaluates his attempt to develop a social ecology. Finally, it considers how his thinking relates to current debates in social theory and environmentalism, critical theory and philosophy, political ecology and urban theory. Offering a clear account of Bookchin's key themes, this book provides a critical but sympathetic account of the strengths and weaknesses of Bookchin's writing.

Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849354455

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Toward an Ecological Society by Murray Bookchin Pdf

Visionary essays from a founder of the modern ecology movement. In this collection of essays, Murray Bookchin's vision for an ecological society remains central as he addresses questions of urbanism and city planning, technology, self-management, energy, utopianism, and more. Throughout, he opposes efforts to reduce ecology to a toothless “environmentalism,” a task as vital today as when these essays were first published. Written between 1969 and 1979, the essays in this collection represent a fascinating and fertile period in Bookchin’s life. Coming out of the unfulfilled promise of the sixties and trying to develop a revolutionary critique of social life that avoided the pitfalls of Marxism, he was entering his creative intellectual peak. He was laying the foundations of a truly social ecology: a society based on decentralization, interdependence, democratic self-management, mutual aid, and solidarity. Presented with clarity and fervor, these key works contain the kernels of concerns that would occupy him until his death in 2006. This edition also includes a new foreword by Dan Chodorkoff, someone who was with Bookchin at the founding of his Institute for Social Ecology and who understand his work better than anyone.

Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015001279794

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The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin Pdf

The Ecology of Freedom, his most exciting and far-reaching work yet. This engaging and extremely readable book's scope is downright breathtaking. Using an inspired synthesis of ecology, anthropology, philosophy and political theory, it traces our society's conflicting legacies of freedom and domination, from the first emergence of human culture to today's global capitalism. The theme of Bookchin's grand historical narrative is straightforward: environmental, economic and political devastation are born at the moment that human societies begin to organize themselves hierarchically. And, despite the nuance and detail of his arguments, the lesson to be learned is just as basic: our nightmare will continue until hierarchy is dissolved and human beings develop more sane, sustainable and egalitarian social structures. The Ecology of Freedom is indispensable reading for anyone who's tired of living in a world where everything, and everyone, is an exploitable resource. It includes a brand new preface by the author. Book jacket.

Author : Janet Biehl,Murray Bookchin
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Environmentalism
ISBN : 1551641186

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The Murray Bookchin Reader by Janet Biehl,Murray Bookchin Pdf

This 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.

Author : Tarinski Yavor Tarinski
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551647135

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Enlightenment and Ecology by Tarinski Yavor Tarinski Pdf

Throughout his life, prophetic American philosopher Murray Bookchin created social ecology as a comprehensive social program for the challenges of our present era. Through tireless teaching, speaking, organizing, and writing, Bookchin presented a humanist vision of ecology based on community, direct democracy, and the better promises of the Enlightenment, showing how we could transform our society into one that is free and egalitarian. Enlightenment and Ecology is an international collection of commemorative essays by scholars and activists who have each incorporated the ideas of social ecology into their own work. This book also examines how the Kurdish freedom movement is using the Bookchin's utopian ideas. In a time of urgent need for radical change, these essays provide both precious historical lessons and a transformative road map.

Author : George Sessions
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015033254692

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Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century by George Sessions Pdf

Instead of thinking of nature as a resource to be used for human needs, deep ecology argues that the true value of nature is intrinsic. This comprehensive and wide-ranging anthology contains almost 50 articles by the leading writers and thinkers in the field, offering a broad array of perspectives on this important approach to environmentalism.

Author : Nina Witoszek,Andrew Brennan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0847689298

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Philosophical Dialogues by Nina Witoszek,Andrew Brennan Pdf

This volume documents the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the late 1990s. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the sceptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess's vision, which has deepened and broadened to include third-world and feminist perspectives.

Author : Ruth Thomas-Pellicer,Vito De Lucia,Sian Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317527350

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Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer,Vito De Lucia,Sian Sullivan Pdf

Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments is a preliminary contribution to the establishment of re-embodiments as a theoretical strand within legal and ecological theory, and philosophy. Re-embodiments are all those contemporary practices and processes that exceed the epistemic horizon of modernity. As such, they offer a plurality of alternative modes of theory and practice that seek to counteract the ecocidal tendencies of the Anthropocene. The collection comprises eleven contributions approaching re-embodiments from a multiplicity of fields, including legal theory, eco-philosophy, eco-feminism and anthropology. The contributions are organized into three parts: ‘Beyond Modernity’, ‘The Sacred Dimension’ and ‘The Legal Dimension’. The collection is opened by a comprehensive introduction that situates re-embodiments in theoretical context. Whilst closely bound with embodiment and new materialist theory, this book contributes a unique voice that echoes diverse political processes contemporaneous to our times. Written in an elegant and accessible language, the book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and established scholars alike seeking to understand and take re-embodiments further, both politically and theoretically.

Author : James Justus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107040045

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The Philosophy of Ecology by James Justus Pdf

Introduces the philosophical issues which ecology poses about the biological world and the environmental sciences attempting to protect it.