Kropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780748642298 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 272 str.

Kinna; Ruth Kinna

Opis

This book provides a re-assessment of Kropotkin's political thought and suggests that the 'classical' tradition which has provided a lens for the discussion of his work has had a distorting effect on the interpretation of his ideas. By setting the analysis of his thought in a number of key historical contexts, Ruth Kinna reveals the enduring significance of his political thought and questions the usefulness of those approaches to the history of ideas that map historical changes to philosophical and theoretical shifts. One of the key arguments of the book is that Kropotkin contributed to the elaboration of an anarchist ideology, which has been badly misunderstood and which today is too often dismissed as outdated. This sympathetic but critical analysis corrects some popular myths about Kropotkin's thought, highlights the important and unique contribution he made to the history of socialist ideas and sheds new light on the nature of anarchist ideology.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Portrait of the anarchist as an old man, Chapter 1: Out with the old, in with the new, Chapter 2: From new anarchism to postanarchism, Conclusion to part 1; Part 2: Coming Out of Russia, Introduction (A Beautiful White Christ) coming out of Russia, Chapter 3: Nihilism, Chapter 4: Mapping the state, Conclusion to part 2; Part 3: Revolution and Evolution, Introduction to Part 3: The general idea of anarchy, Chapter 5: Anarchism: utopian and scientific , Chapter 6: The revolution will not be historicised, Conclusion to part 3; Conclusion; Bibliography