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.
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This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin’s anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. Overall, the book provides a refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin’s anarchism.
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Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I: Knowledge and methods1. Forms of knowledge 2. Mapping, statistics, and social law Part II: Diagnoses and remedies3. The state4. Capitalism and the bourgeoisie5. RevolutionPostscript: the ambivalence of Kropotkin’s anarchist thought
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ISBN
9781138365650
Publisert
2020-10-09
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Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
358 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
146
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Richard Morgan completed his doctorate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.