The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought

The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought

by Richard Morgan
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 09/10/2020

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This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin’s anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Russian bio-social-medical scientific thought to the extent that ideas about health, sickness, insanity, degeneration, and hygiene were for him not metaphors but rather key political concerns. It goes on to discuss how for Kropotkin's bio-political anarchism, the state, capitalism, and revolution were medical concerns whose effects on the individual and society were measurable by social statistics and explainable by bio-social-medical knowledge. Overall, the book provides a refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin’s anarchism.

ISBN:
9780429773495
9780429773495
Category:
Regional studies
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
09-10-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan was, until his writing career took off, a tutor at Strathclyde University in the English Language Teaching division.

He has travelled widely and lived in Spain and Istanbul. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke, John W. Campbell and Philip K. Dick Awards his books are published around the world. He lives in Norwich with his family.

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