A British Anarchist Tradition
A British Anarchist Tradition

Author: Carissa Honeywell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-05-12

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1441198830

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A British Anarchist Tradition focuses on three contemporary British theorists and practitioners, Herbert Read, Colin Ward, and Alex Comfort and looks at their interrelation, commonality, and collective influence on British radical thought. The book aims to foster a greater understanding of anarchism as an intellectual response to 20th century developments and its impact on political thought and movements. For the first time, the work of these three writers is presented as a tradition, highlighting the consistency of their themes and concerns. To do so, the book shows how they addressed the problems faced by modern British society, with clear lines of political, literary, and intellectual traditions linking them. It also focuses on their contribution to the development of anarchist conceptions of freedom in the twentieth century. A British Anarchist Tradition identifies an area of anarchism that deserves greater critical, scholarly attention. Its unique and thorough research will make it a valuable resource for anyone interested in contemporary anarchist thought, political theory, and political movements.

Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow
Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow

Author: David Goodway

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1846310253

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From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. This work seeks to recover that indigenous anarchist tradition. It argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals.

Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow
Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow

Author: David Goodway

Publisher: PM Press

Published: 2011-12-12

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1604866675

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From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics. Goodway argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could—and should—be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals. Moving seamlessly from Aldous Huxley and Colin Ward to the war in Iraq, this challenging volume will energize leftist movements throughout the world.

Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism
Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism

Author: M. Adams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-06-04

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1137392622

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Although marginal as a political force, anarchist ideas developed in Britain into a political tradition. This book explores this lost history, offering a new appraisal of the work of Kropotkin and Read, and examining the ways in which they endeavoured to articulate a politics fit for the particular challenges of Britain's modern history.

Kropotkin
Kropotkin

Author: Kinna Ruth Kinna

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-01-18

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1474410413

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This book provides a re-assessment of Kropotkin's political thought and suggests that the 'classical' tradition which has provided a lens for the discussion of his work has had a distorting effect on the interpretation of his ideas. By setting the analysis of his thought in a number of key historical contexts, Ruth Kinna reveals the enduring significance of his political thought and questions the usefulness of those approaches to the history of ideas that map historical changes to philosophical and theoretical shifts. One of the key arguments of the book is that Kropotkin contributed to the elaboration of an anarchist ideology, which has been badly misunderstood and which today is too often dismissed as outdated. This sympathetic but critical analysis corrects some popular myths about Kropotkin's thought, highlights the important and unique contribution he made to the history of socialist ideas and sheds new light on the nature of anarchist ideology.

Deleuze and Anarchism
Deleuze and Anarchism

Author: Gray Van Heerden Chantelle Gray Van Heerden

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-02-20

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1474439101

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This collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to the notion of anarchism: in the diverse ways that they conceived of and referred to it throughout their work, and also more broadly in terms of the spirit of their philosophy and in their critique of capitalism and the State. Both Deleuze and Guattari were deeply affected by the events of May '68 and an anarchist sensibility permeates their philosophy. However, they never explicitly sustained a discussion of anarchism in their work. Their concept of anarchism is diverse and they referred to in very different senses throughout their writings. This is the first collection to bring Deleuze and Guattari together with anarchism in a focused and sustained way.

Rebel Alliances
Rebel Alliances

Author: Benjamin Franks

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13:

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A philosophical perspective on class-struggle anarchism in Britain today that identifies the main principles distinguishing this tradition from competing Leninist, liberal and social democratic groupings. From these key characteristics, Franks then constructs an 'ideal-type' of anarchism against which the theory and practice of contemporary groups are assessed. All the recurring concerns of anarchism are subjected to his scrutiny: the nature of the revolutionary subject; workplace and community organising; violence and the meaning of direct action.

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Colin Ward

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004-10-21

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0192804774

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What do anarchists want? Can anarchy ever function effectively as a political force? Is anarchism more 'organized' and 'reasonable' than is currently perceived? Colin Ward explains what anarchism means and who anarchists are in this illuminating and accessible introduction to the subject.