Kropotkin and the anarchist intellectual tradition /

Kropotkin and the anarchist intellectual tradition /

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Author / Creator:	Mac Laughlin, Jim, author.
Imprint:	London : Pluto Press, 2016.
Description:	269 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, -- kni︠a︡zʹ, -- 1842-1921. Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, -- kni︠a︡zʹ, -- 1842-1921. Anarchism -- History. Anarchists -- Russia -- Biography. Anarchism. Anarchists. Russia. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10532772

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ISBN:	9780745335131 0745335136 9780745335124 0745335128 9781783717378 9781783717392 9781783717385 1783717378 9781783717378
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-263) and index.
Summary:	In a new examination of Peter Kropotkin's thought, this book rebuts the persistent misrepresentation of anarchism as a utopian creed or a recipe for social chaos and political disorder. Jim Mac Laughlin moves beyond previous accounts, providing a sustained and critical reading of Kropotkin's extensive writings on the social, historical, scientific, and philosophical basis of modern anarchism. The book examines key themes in Kropotkin's philosophy of anarchism, including his concerted efforts to provide anarchism with a historical and scientific basis; the role of mutualism and mutual aid in social evolution and natural history; the ethics of anarchism, and the anarchist critique of state-centred nationalism and other expressions of power politics. -- from back cover.
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Table of Contents:

1. Anarchism Before Kropotkin
2. Peter Kropotkin: The Education of an Anarchist
3. Peter Kropotkin and the Legitimization of Anarchism
4. 'Scientific Anarchism' and Evolutionary Theory: Towards an Ontology of Anarchist Ethics and Altruism
5. Kropotkin's Anarchism and the Nineteenth-Century Geographical Imagination: Towards an Anarchist Political Geography
6. Epilogue
Notes
Index