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Demanding the impossible, a history of anarchism, Peter Marshall

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Demanding the impossible, a history of anarchism, Peter Marshall
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Demanding the impossible
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Peter Marshall
Sub title
a history of anarchism
Summary
An authoritative and lively study, exploring the key anarchist concepts of society and the state, freedom and equality, authority and power. Marshall investigates the successes and failure of the anarchist movements through the world
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- pt. I. Anarchism in theory (1. The river of anarchy -- 2. Society and the state -- 3. Freedom and equality) -- pt. II. The forerunners of anarchism (4. Taoism and Buddhism -- 5. The Greeks -- 6. Christianity -- 7. The Middle Ages -- 8. The English revolution -- 9. The French Renaissance and Enlightenment -- 10. The British Enlightenment) -- pt. III. Great libertarians (11. French libertarians -- 12. German libertarians -- 13. British libertarians -- 14. American libertarians) -- pt. IV. Classic anarchist thinkers (15. William Godwin : the lover of order -- 16. Max Stirner : the consious egoist -- 17. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon : the philosopher of poverty -- 18. Michael Bakunin : the fanatic of freedom -- 19. Peter Kropotkin : the revolutionary evolutionist -- 20. Elisee Reclus : the geographer of liberty -- 21. Errico Malatesta : the electrician of revolution -- 22. Leo Tolstoy : the count of peace -- 23. American individualists and Communists -- 24. Emma Goldman : the most dangerous woman -- 25. German Communists -- 26. Mohandas Gandhi : the gentle revolutionary) -- pt. V. Anarchism in action (27. France -- 28. Italy -- 29. Spain -- 30. Russia and the Ukraine -- 31. Northern Europe -- 32. United States -- 33. Latin America -- 34. Asia) -- pt. VI. Modern anarchism (35. The New Left and the counter-culture -- 36. The New Right and anarcho-capitalism -- 37. Modern libertarians -- 38. Modern anarchists -- 39. Murray Bookchin and the ecology of freedom) -- pt. VII. The legacy or anarchism (40. Ends and means -- 41. The relevance of anarchism) -- Epilogue
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