Ruth Kinna

Kropotkin (eBook, ePUB)

Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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the elaboration of an anarchist ideology, which has been badly misunderstood and which today is too often dismissed as outdated.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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474405010
• Artikelnr.: 56904370

Autorenporträt

Ruth Kinna is Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University. She has published widely on the history of anarchist ideas and on nineteenth century socialist and anarchist thought.

Inhaltsangabe

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