According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society; decentralized democratic communities; and sustainable technologies. Drawing on rich traditions of ecological science, anthropology, history, utopian philosophy, and ethics, Remaking Society offers a coherent framework for social and ecological reconstruction. This innovative work on nature and society provides readers with clea...

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements.With a foreword by the best-selling author of The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Next Revolution brings togethe...

Reinvigorates ecological thought. Bookchin was a founder of the ecological movement and remains one of its most articulate and revolutionary writers. In his take-no-prisoners style, he insisted that the global environmental clock was running out—decades ago. His fervent and challenging ideas feel tailored for our times.The medicine we need. These ideas are, if anything, more relevant today than when they were written. Bookchin is a writer c...

L'ecologia della libertà, opera della maturità intellettuale di Bookchin, si conferma a distanza di decenni dalla sua uscita un grande classico del pensiero utopico contemporaneo. Il libro spazia dalla biologia all'economia, dalla storia delle religioni all'antropologia, delineando un grande affresco libertario che ripercorre il contrastato rapporto tra umanità e natura alla luce di un altro contrastato rapporto, quello tra dominio e libertà. E postula, dopo lo storico emergere e ...

« Je ne peux que suivre Emma Goldman quand elle déclare ne pas vouloir d’une révolution où elle ne pourrait pas danser. Mais à tout le moins, elle voulait une révolution – une révolution sociale – sans laquelle de telles fins esthétiques et psychologiques ne bénéficieraient qu’à quelques-uns. Or, sauf à me tromper complètement, les objectifs révolutionnaires et sociaux de l’anarchisme aujourd’hui souffrent d’une telle dégradation que le mot “anarchie” fera bientôt partie intégrante du ...

In this far-reaching work, social ecologist and historian Murray Bookchin takes the reader on a voyage through the evolution of the city. Cities are not just monumental social and political facts, they are tremendous ecological facts as well. Far from seeing them as an inherent adversary of the natural world, though, Bookchin uncovers a hidden history of cities as “eco-communities” that fostered diversity and interconnection, living in balance with and awareness of nature. Just as ecosyste...

In questo classico dell'ecologia sociale, Bookchin si chiede se davvero non c'è rimedio a questo fenomeno chiamato «civiltà» che pare sul punto di distruggere un mondo naturale formatosi in milioni di anni di evoluzione organica. Di certo le soluzioni vanno trovate lontano dalla prevalente ragione strumentale, che risponde a logiche di dominio sulla natura radicate in quel dominio dell'uomo sull'uomo che ha plasmato sia la nostra struttura sociale sia la nostra visione della natura. Bookch...

Originally published in 1962, Our Synthetic Environment explores the negative effects that chemicals and other toxins in the environment have on human health. From the degradation of our food and soil due to industrial agricultural methods, to how pollution and radiation are the causes of illnesses like cancer, this book was visionary in its anticipation of many of the ecological problems our planet currently faces. Written by one of the leading eco-thinkers of the twentieth centu...

Anarquismo, crítica e autocrítica reúne dois textos: "Anarquismo social ou anarquismo de estilo de vida: um abismo intransponível", de 1995, e "A esquerda que se foi: uma reflexão pessoal", de 1991. O primeiro insere-se dentro da polêmica em que Bookchin teve destacado papel, por tentar diferenciar dois projetos que haviam se colocado dentro do anarquismo: um individualista e outro socialista. Acreditava que os valores clássicos do anarquismo (considerado um socialismo libertário)...

What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin confronts these questions head on: invoking the ideas of mutualism, self-organization, and unity in diversity, in the service of ev...

Au début des années 1960, Murray Bookchin, ouvrier syndiqué, activiste libertaire et intellectuel autodidacte, élabore une réponse politique et éthique à la crise écologique émergente : l’écologie sociale. À la différence des autres, celle-ci n'oublie pas de rappeler que la société et la nature ne peuvent pas être séparées. Pour lui, la destruction de la nature par l'humain découle de la domination sociale de certains groupes sur d'autres. L’habitabilité future de la Terre requiert ainsi l...