The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought

Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-36565-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgan, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Anarchismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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