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This collection offers an overview of the thought of Murray Bookchin, today's foremost social theorist and political philosopher of the libertarian left. Best known for introducing ecology as a concept relevant to radical political thought in the early 1960s, Bookchin was the first to propose, in the 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 a wide range of subject matter. Bookchin's writings on revolutionary philosophy, politics and history are less known than the specific controversies that have surrounded him, but deserve possibly greater attention. Despite his 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. Consistent throughout his work is a search for ways in which to replace today's capitalist society with a more rational and humane alternative.
Murray Bookchin was one of North America's most important ecological voices. Active in the ecology movement for over thirty years, he authored more than a dozen books on urbanism, ecology, technology and philosophy. Edited by Janet Biehl and described by Bookchin himself as the best introduction to his work The Murray Bookchin Reader spans five decades of writings essential to the ecological and political philosophies of the contemporary libertarian left.
Janet Biehl is the author of The Politics of Social Ecology (Black Rose Books) and Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin (Oxford University Press). She lives in Burlington, Vermont.
"Murray Bookchin was irascible, human, brilliant, and above all relevant to our own time."
-- Gar Alperovitz. Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland
"Creative, charismatic, controversial and, many would add, more often than not a bit cantankerous, Murray Bookchin was without doubt one of the most significant thinkers of the last century."
-- David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Centre |
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