"The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. 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polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges.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 skeptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess ..."
"The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy_the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. 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polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges.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 skeptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess ..."
"This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific background. Exploring ethical theory, environme ..."
"Upon their scandalous deportation from the United States in 1919, famous anarchist writers and activists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were greeted like heroes by the new Bolshevik government in Russia. Berkman described it as “the most sublime day of my life.” And yet he would flee the country after only two years. Belarus-born Ida Mett, who went through a similar experience at the time, also wrote a harrowing account of the Red A ..."
"Two fascinating documentaries on one disc! In the first, Anarchism in America, the filmmakers take a road trip to map anarchism as a distinctly American tradition, interviewing a diverse cast of characters: from “ordinary” truckers and farmers to famous anarchists like Kenneth Rexroth and Ursula LeGuin. The second, The Free Voice of Labor, traces the history of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper of that name—publishing it’s final issue aft ..."
"Deals with the questions that lie behind today's headlines. Contributors include: Murray Bookchin, Noam Chomsky, Rossella Di Leo, Frank Harrison. "Attempts to make up the ground the left has lost."--Kingston Whig-Standard"
"This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific background. Exploring ethical theory, environme ..."
Remaking Society A New Ecological Politics (Paperback) by MurrayBookchin Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2023 by Ak Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-84935-442-4, ISBN: 1-84935-442-1
"This pioneering work on nature and society provides readers with clear strategies for averting disaster."
From Urbanization to Cities The Politics of Democratic Municipalism (Paperback) by MurrayBookchin Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2022 by Ak Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84935-438-7, ISBN: 1-84935-438-3
"2018 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Bookchin wrote Our Synthetic Environment under the pseudonym Lewis Herber. This was one of the first books of the modern period in which an author espoused an ecological and environmentalist worldview. It predates Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson, a more widely known book on the same topic widely credited as s ..."
"Upon their scandalous deportation from the United States in 1919, famous anarchist writers and activists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were greeted like heroes by the new Bolshevik government in Russia. Berkman described it as “the most sublime day of my life.” And yet he would flee the country after only two years. Belarus-born Ida Mett, who went through a similar experience at the time, also wrote a harrowing account of the Red A ..."
"From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements. With a foreword by the best-selling author of "The Dispossessed, " Ursula K. Le Guin, "T ..."
"From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements. With a foreword by the best-selling author of "The Dispossessed, " Ursula K. Le Guin, "T ..."
The Next Revolution Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy by MurrayBookchin 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-582-2, ISBN: 1-78168-582-7
"Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy Murray Bookchin
Debbie Bookchin, Blair Taylor ... Wegratefully acknowledge Audrea Lim, Jacob
Stevens, Mark Martin, and theentire teamat Verso for their tireless efforts in
disseminating radical thought. We want to also acknowledge the longstanding
dedication to these ideas by everyone attheInstitute for SocialEcology. Finally,
Jim Schumacher has supportedMurray Bookchin and his ..."
Free Cities Communalism and the Left by MurrayBookchin Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Pluto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-2819-5, ISBN: 0-7453-2819-9
"Murray Bookchin was one of the most important radical thinkers of the twentieth century. This is his final book, completed just before he died in 2006. It is the first book to comprehensively explain his political ideas. In the 1960s Murray Bookchin introduced the concept of ecology into progressive politics, and he is widely regarded as the foremost theorist of the green and anarchist movements. Bookchin argued that capitalism and the ..."
Free Cities Communalism and the Left by MurrayBookchin, Eirik Eiglad Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Pluto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-2818-8, ISBN: 0-7453-2818-0
"Murray Bookchin was one of the most important radical thinkers of the twentieth century. This is his final book, completed just before he died in 2006. It is the first book to comprehensively explain his political ideas. In the 1960s Murray Bookchin introduced the concept of ecology into progressive politics, and he is widely regarded as the foremost theorist of the green and anarchist movements. Bookchin argued that capitalism and the ..."