Visions of freedom : critical writings on ecology and anarchism / Brian Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Brian, 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Philosophy.

Ecology.

Anarchism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Black Rose Books, [2018]

Summary:

Every ten years, notoriously eclectic thinker Brian Morris takes a year of sabbatical and launches out into another field about which he knows nothing. In the 1980s it was botany; in the 1990s, zoology; in the 2000s, entomology. The quintessential polymath, Morris has written on his incredible breadth of interests in wide-ranging essays, with subjects ranging from boxing to deep ecology to new-age gurus.Collected here for the first time, Visions of Freedom brings together all of Morris's concise yet diverse essays on politics, history, and ecology written since 1989. It includes book reviews, letters, and articles in the engaging and accessible style for which Morris is known. The thinkers he deals with are as diverse as Thomas Paine to C. L. R. James, from Karl Marx to Krishnamurti, from Max Weber to Naomi Klein. He also delves into the canon of classic anarchist thinkers like Kropotkin, Bakunin, Reclus, Proudhon, and Flores Magnon.Taking a stance against the obscurantism of contemporary academic discourse, Morris' writings demonstrate an interdisciplinary approach that moves seamlessly between topics, developing practical connections between scholarly debates and the pressing social, ecological and political issues of our times.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CLR JAMES, 1909-1989

BOOKS ABOUT GREENS

THE IGNOBLE ART

TOWARDS A TRANSPERSONAL ECOLOGY

A CRITIQUE OF ECOFEMINISM

MARY DALY AND HER CRITICS

CRITICAL REALISM: MARX AND THE MARKET UNITED?

ON MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

A CRITIQUE OF LIBERAL SOCIAL THEORY

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EXCHANGE

THE NATURE OF ECOLOGY

RAJNEESH: THE GOD THAT FAILED

A NEW WORLD ORDER OR CAPITALISM REVAMPED

GUSTAVE COURBET, 1819-1877

GUILD SOCIALISM RESTATED YET AGAIN

THE CHIPKO MOVEMENT

THE ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW

THE GREEN REVOLUTION

THE SHINING PATH

CHRISTIANARCHY: MYSTICAL ANARCHISM, OR JUST PLAIN MYSTICISM?

COLONIZATIONS

FUNDAMENTALISM

TOM PAINE-THE RADICAL LIBERAL

THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUAL

IN DEFENCE OF LITERACY

UTOPIA IN THE AMAZON

TAGORE AND NATIONALISM

AMERICAN CIVILIZATION

TOM PAINE-THE MAN OF REASON

RUDOLF BAHRO: GREEN VISIONARY OR ECO-FASCIST?

BEWARE OF GURUS

PROUDHON AND ANARCHISM

A NOTE ON THE ANARCHISTS OF ISLAM

DEMANDING THE IMPOSSIBLE, 1999

RECLUS, KROPOTKIN AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY

GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP

WEBER AND THE ANARCHISTS

UTOPIAN VISIONS

MYTHS OF MODERN INDIVIDUALISM

BEYOND BOUNDARIES

AGRARIAN SOCIALISM

BEYOND GLOBAL CAPITALISM

EQUALITY AND THE CAPTIVE STATE

WAS NIETZSCHE AN ANARCHIST?

IN DEFENCE OF MICHAEL BAKUNIN

EARTH DEMOCRACY

THE POLITICS OF THE ANARCHIST FEDERATION

ISLAM AND ANARCHISM

POSTSTRUCTURALIST ANARCHISM

BAKUNIN: THE CREATIVE PASSION

SACCO AND VANZETTI

THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE

FLORES MAGÓN AND THE ANARCHIST VISION OF FREEDOM

ESOTERICISM: THE RELIGION OF EMPIRE

KRISHNAMURTI AND ANARCHISM

NAOMI KLEIN AND DISASTER CAPITALISM

ECOLOGY AND CAPITALISM

ECO-STATE SOCIALISM: THE GREEN PARTY MANIFESTO.

ANARCHISM IN THE ACADEMY, 2010

FORGOTTEN ANARCHIST-FEMINISTS

THE ANARCHIST IDEA OF COMMUNISM

THE LEGACY OF SAINT-IMIER

KARL MARX-ANTHROPOLOGIST

IN DEFENCE OF THE COMMONS

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ANARCHIST SOLIDARITY.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781551646480

155164648X

OCLC:

1243546340