Making of Kropotkin''s Anarchist Thought - Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-Political Dimension

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Knowledge and methods
1. Forms of knowledge
2. Mapping, statistics, and social law
Part II: Diagnoses and remedies
3. The state
4. Capitalism and the bourgeoisie
5. Revolution
Postscript: the ambivalence of Kropotkin¿s anarchist thought

About the author

Richard Morgan completed his doctorate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Morgan, Richard Morgan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781138365650
• ISBN: 978-1-138-36565-0
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Regional Studies, Regional Geography, Political ideologies and movements, Anarchism