Matthew S Adams
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3592138 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew S Adams |
| PRENOMES | Matthew S |
| SOBRENOME | Adams |
| ASSINATURA | ADAMS M S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5440-4866 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism
‘Saint or Politician?’
This article interrogates British anarchist responses to Mohandas Gandhi during the 1940s, a pivotal period marked by the reemergence of British anarchism and the intensification of Indian independence efforts. It argues that while anarchists supported Indian self-liberation, they were deeply divided over Gandhi. For some, he was an inspiration for nonviolent tactics; for others, he represented the flaws of nationalist-led independence, auguring …
Anarchism and the “Fascination with Empire”
This article critically examines George Woodcock’s travel writings on India between 1961 and 1981, exploring the tensions between his anarchist anti-imperialism and the cultural frameworks inherited from his upbringing in the heart of empire. While Woodcock admired Gandhi and sought to understand India through a lens of philosophical anarchism, his engagement was shaped by elite literary connections and orientalist tropes that complicated his vis…
Mobilizing William Godwin, the “Father of British Anarchism”
This article examines the reconfigurations of British anarchist politics and culture, focusing on the reception of William Godwin by three influential anarchist writers and activists: George Woodcock, Colin Ward, and Albert Meltzer. It argues that mobilizing Godwin was an important part of their efforts to define, and then defend, a particular version of anarchist intellectual culture in Britain, each with its own unique history and strategic per…
Introduction to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown’s Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (Routledge, 2022)
Contribution to a symposium on Sophie Scott-Brown, Colin Ward and the art of everyday anarchy (London and New York
The Anarchist and the Technocrat
A conceptual revision occurred at the heart of anarchist theory between the end of the nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. As anarchist thinkers grappled with a state transformed beyond recognition by technological change, they reassessed their critique of state power and the rhetorical methods used to expose its inherent violence. Where nineteenth-century anarchists favored organic metaphors to emphasize the monstrosity of the state, twe…
Theorising the anti‐nation
George Woodcock was anarchism's most influential historian and an important public intellectual in Canada. This article focuses on his engagement with Canadian nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. It argues that a ‘philosophical anarchism’ was at the heart of his intellectual project, and this informed his reading of Canadian cultural development and subsequent political challenge to Pierre Elliott Trudeau's civic nationalism. Woodcock decoupled t…
Essays in Anarchism and Religion
Anarchism and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship. Indeed, representatives of both sides have regularly insisted on the fundamental incompatibility of anarchist and religious ideas and practices. Yet, ever since the emergence of anarchism as an intellectual and political movement, a considerable number of religious anarchists have insisted that their religious tradition necessarily implies an anarchist political stance. Reflecti…
Sleeping dogs and rebellious hopes’
After the tragedies of the twentieth century, the utopian impulse was subject to searching criticism by a host of liberal intellectuals including Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and Jacob Talmon. Looking to history and political philosophy, these thinkers impugned utopianism for so frequently destroying the freedoms it appeared to pursue. Defined by its theoretical contradictions, the utopian project, rooted in the politics of the Enli…
The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism
This handbook unites leading scholars from around the world in exploring anarchism as a political ideology, from an examination of its core principles, an analysis of its history, and an assessment of its contribution to the struggles that face humanity today. Grounded in a conceptual and historical approach, each entry charts what is distinctive about the anarchist response to particular intellectual, political, cultural and social phenomena, an…
Utopian civic virtue
Civic virtue is a core concept in the\nrepublican tradition. Its associations with duty and sacrifice indicate that it\nis temperamentally incompatible with anarchism, an ideology typically defined\nby its commitment to maximising freedom. Presenting an original reading of the\nwork of Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin, two seminal figures in the history\nof anarchist ideas, this article argues that, nevertheless, a conception of\ncivic virtue …
Radical Gotham
Radical Gotham: anarchism in New York City from Schwab’s saloon to Occupy Wall Street." Social History, 44(3), pp. 378–380
Social Darwinism
Charles Darwin's work had an important, but complex, impact on social thinking in the nineteenth century. Although the language of evolution was integral to social thought before publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, social theorists increasingly turned to evolutionary theory to help understand human societies as the significance of Darwin's contribution to the biological sciences became more apparent. Social Darwinism encompassed a me…
Essays in Anarchism and Religion
Anarchism and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship. Indeed, representatives of both sides have regularly insisted on the fundamental incompatibility of anarchist and religious ideas and practices. Yet, ever since the emergence of anarchism as an intellectual and political movement, a considerable number of religious anarchists have insisted that their religious tradition necessarily implies an anarchist political stance. Reflecti…
Anarchism, 1914–18
Essays in Anarchism and Religion
Anarchism and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship. Indeed, representatives of both sides have regularly insisted on the fundamental incompatibility of anarchist and religious ideas and practices. Yet, ever since the emergence of anarchism as an intellectual and political movement, a considerable number of religious anarchists have insisted that their religious tradition necessarily implies an anarchist political stance. Their st…
George Woodcock and the Doukhobors
For the British-Canadian writer and intellectual George Woodcock, the Doukhobors – a persecuted radical Christian sect, many members of which emigrated from Russia to Canada at the turn of the twentieth century – were a continual source of fascination. A cause célèbre for a host of nineteenth-century thinkers, including Leo Tolstoy and Peter Kropotkin, the Doukhobors were frequently portrayed as the exemplars of the viewer’s particular ideologica…
Cold war modernists
Cold war modernists: art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 24(2), pp. 328–329
Bradley W. Hart. George Pitt-Rivers and the Nazis
The Pitt-Rivers name will be familiar to anyone with an interest in British history, but the life of this Pitt-Rivers will probably not be the one that springs to mind. Indeed, a theme running through Bradley W. Hart’s interesting biography of George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers is his sense of being overshadowed by his famous grandfather, General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, the pioneering archaeologist whose vast collections formed the ba…
Anarchism 1914-18
Formulating an Anarchist Sociology
The work of Herbert Spencer was a crucial influence on the development of Peter Kropotkin's historical sociology. However, scholars have underestimated this relationship; either overlooking it entirely, or minimizing Kropotkin's attachment to Spencer with the aim of maintaining the utility of his political thought in the present. This article contests these interpretations by analyzing Kropotkin's reading of Spencer's epistemological, biological,…
Conclusion
George Woodcock’s classic history of anarchism opened with an impassioned defence of anarchist thought, and closed with a threnody: As a movement, anarchism has failed ... During the past forty years the influence it once established has dwindled, by defeat after defeat and by the slow draining of hope, almost to nothing. Nor is there any reasonable likelihood of a renaissance of anarchism as we have known it ... history suggests that movements w…
Statism
In 1897, Kropotkin travelled to Toronto to participate in the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at the invitation of his friend, the Scottish-Canadian economist James Mavor. After delivering two geographical papers, he then embarked on a tour of the east coast, lecturing on the theory of mutual aid, and the history of Russian literature. It was a productive trip. He was invited back to deliver a series of le…
Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism
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 Rea
New Perspectives on Anarchism
Formulating an Anarchist Sociology
The work of Herbert Spencer was a crucial influence on the development of Peter Kropotkin's historical sociology. However, scholars have underestimated this relationship; either overlooking it entirely, or minimizing Kropotkin's attachment to Spencer with the aim of maintaining the utility of his political thought in the present. This article contests these interpretations by analyzing Kropotkin's reading of Spencer's epistemological, biological,…
The Continuum Companion to Anarchism
The Continuum Companion to Anarchism." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 20(5), pp. 934–935
Utopian civic virtue
Civic virtue is a core concept in the\nrepublican tradition. Its associations with duty and sacrifice indicate that it\nis temperamentally incompatible with anarchism, an ideology typically defined\nby its commitment to maximising freedom. Presenting an original reading of the\nwork of Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin, two seminal figures in the history\nof anarchist ideas, this article argues that, nevertheless, a conception of\ncivic virtue …
Political theory and history
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Political Ideologies on 25th November 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13569317.2015.1075263
The Anarchist and the Technocrat
A conceptual revision occurred at the heart of anarchist theory between the end of the nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. As anarchist thinkers grappled with a state transformed beyond recognition by technological change, they reassessed their critique of state power and the rhetorical methods used to expose its inherent violence. Where nineteenth-century anarchists favored organic metaphors to emphasize the monstrosity of the state, twe…
Theorising the anti‐nation
George Woodcock was anarchism's most influential historian and an important public intellectual in Canada. This article focuses on his engagement with Canadian nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. It argues that a ‘philosophical anarchism’ was at the heart of his intellectual project, and this informed his reading of Canadian cultural development and subsequent political challenge to Pierre Elliott Trudeau's civic nationalism. Woodcock decoupled t…
George Woodcock and the Doukhobors
For the British-Canadian writer and intellectual George Woodcock, the Doukhobors – a persecuted radical Christian sect, many members of which emigrated from Russia to Canada at the turn of the twentieth century – were a continual source of fascination. A cause célèbre for a host of nineteenth-century thinkers, including Leo Tolstoy and Peter Kropotkin, the Doukhobors were frequently portrayed as the exemplars of the viewer’s particular ideologica…
Herbert Read and the fluid memory of the First World War
According to many critics, Herbert Read's experience fighting in the trenches of the First World War was a formative one that shaped his intellectual life. His war poetry and autobiographical prose reflected on the horrors of fighting, and his anarchist-pacifism was a product, they argue, of experiencing the war first hand. Utilizing archival material and analysing Read's poetry, prose and polemical writing, the present article contests this read…
Colin Ward
When Colin Ward died in 2010, he joined a rather select club of self-professed anarchists receiving an obituary in The Daily Telegraph. This in itself is testament to Ward's quiet influence on post
Art, Education, and Revolution
It is popularly believed that British anarchism underwent a ‘renaissance’ in the\n1960s, as conventional revolutionary tactics were replaced by an ethos of\npermanent protest. Often associated with Colin Ward and his journal Anarchy,\nthis tactical shift is said to have occurred due to growing awareness of Gustav\nLandauer’s work. This article challenges these readings by focusing on Herbert\nRead’s book Education through Art, a work motivated by…
New Perspectives on Anarchism
The World That Never Was
Max Stirner/The Practical Anarchist
The Continuum Companion to Anarchism
The Continuum Companion to Anarchism." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 20(5), pp. 934–935
Art, Education, and Revolution
It is popularly believed that British anarchism underwent a ‘renaissance’ in the\n1960s, as conventional revolutionary tactics were replaced by an ethos of\npermanent protest. Often associated with Colin Ward and his journal Anarchy,\nthis tactical shift is said to have occurred due to growing awareness of Gustav\nLandauer’s work. This article challenges these readings by focusing on Herbert\nRead’s book Education through Art, a work motivated by…
Making Sense of Anarchism
Book Review| January 01 2014 Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta’s Experiments with Revolution, 1889–1900 Making Sense of Anarchism: Errico Malatesta’s Experiments with Revolution, 1889–1900, Davide Turcato, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; 288 pages. $90.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-230-30179-5. Matthew S. Adams Matthew S. Adams Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of…
Colin Ward
When Colin Ward died in 2010, he joined a rather select club of self-professed anarchists receiving an obituary in The Daily Telegraph. This in itself is testament to Ward's quiet influence on post
Conclusion
George Woodcock’s classic history of anarchism opened with an impassioned defence of anarchist thought, and closed with a threnody: As a movement, anarchism has failed ... During the past forty years the influence it once established has dwindled, by defeat after defeat and by the slow draining of hope, almost to nothing. Nor is there any reasonable likelihood of a renaissance of anarchism as we have known it ... history suggests that movements w…
Statism
In 1897, Kropotkin travelled to Toronto to participate in the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at the invitation of his friend, the Scottish-Canadian economist James Mavor. After delivering two geographical papers, he then embarked on a tour of the east coast, lecturing on the theory of mutual aid, and the history of Russian literature. It was a productive trip. He was invited back to deliver a series of le…
Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism
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 Rea
Political theory and history
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Political Ideologies on 25th November 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13569317.2015.1075263
Herbert Read and the fluid memory of the First World War
According to many critics, Herbert Read's experience fighting in the trenches of the First World War was a formative one that shaped his intellectual life. His war poetry and autobiographical prose reflected on the horrors of fighting, and his anarchist-pacifism was a product, they argue, of experiencing the war first hand. Utilizing archival material and analysing Read's poetry, prose and polemical writing, the present article contests this read…
Formulating an Anarchist Sociology
The work of Herbert Spencer was a crucial influence on the development of Peter Kropotkin's historical sociology. However, scholars have underestimated this relationship; either overlooking it entirely, or minimizing Kropotkin's attachment to Spencer with the aim of maintaining the utility of his political thought in the present. This article contests these interpretations by analyzing Kropotkin's reading of Spencer's epistemological, biological,…
Anarchism, 1914–18
Essays in Anarchism and Religion
Anarchism and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship. Indeed, representatives of both sides have regularly insisted on the fundamental incompatibility of anarchist and religious ideas and practices. Yet, ever since the emergence of anarchism as an intellectual and political movement, a considerable number of religious anarchists have insisted that their religious tradition necessarily implies an anarchist political stance. Their st…
George Woodcock and the Doukhobors
For the British-Canadian writer and intellectual George Woodcock, the Doukhobors – a persecuted radical Christian sect, many members of which emigrated from Russia to Canada at the turn of the twentieth century – were a continual source of fascination. A cause célèbre for a host of nineteenth-century thinkers, including Leo Tolstoy and Peter Kropotkin, the Doukhobors were frequently portrayed as the exemplars of the viewer’s particular ideologica…
Cold war modernists
Cold war modernists: art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 24(2), pp. 328–329
Bradley W. Hart. George Pitt-Rivers and the Nazis
The Pitt-Rivers name will be familiar to anyone with an interest in British history, but the life of this Pitt-Rivers will probably not be the one that springs to mind. Indeed, a theme running through Bradley W. Hart’s interesting biography of George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers is his sense of being overshadowed by his famous grandfather, General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, the pioneering archaeologist whose vast collections formed the ba…
Anarchism 1914-18
Essays in Anarchism and Religion
Anarchism and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship. Indeed, representatives of both sides have regularly insisted on the fundamental incompatibility of anarchist and religious ideas and practices. Yet, ever since the emergence of anarchism as an intellectual and political movement, a considerable number of religious anarchists have insisted that their religious tradition necessarily implies an anarchist political stance. Reflecti…
The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism
This handbook unites leading scholars from around the world in exploring anarchism as a political ideology, from an examination of its core principles, an analysis of its history, and an assessment of its contribution to the struggles that face humanity today. Grounded in a conceptual and historical approach, each entry charts what is distinctive about the anarchist response to particular intellectual, political, cultural and social phenomena, an…
Utopian civic virtue
Civic virtue is a core concept in the\nrepublican tradition. Its associations with duty and sacrifice indicate that it\nis temperamentally incompatible with anarchism, an ideology typically defined\nby its commitment to maximising freedom. Presenting an original reading of the\nwork of Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin, two seminal figures in the history\nof anarchist ideas, this article argues that, nevertheless, a conception of\ncivic virtue …
Radical Gotham
Radical Gotham: anarchism in New York City from Schwab’s saloon to Occupy Wall Street." Social History, 44(3), pp. 378–380
Social Darwinism
Charles Darwin's work had an important, but complex, impact on social thinking in the nineteenth century. Although the language of evolution was integral to social thought before publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, social theorists increasingly turned to evolutionary theory to help understand human societies as the significance of Darwin's contribution to the biological sciences became more apparent. Social Darwinism encompassed a me…
Essays in Anarchism and Religion
Anarchism and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship. Indeed, representatives of both sides have regularly insisted on the fundamental incompatibility of anarchist and religious ideas and practices. Yet, ever since the emergence of anarchism as an intellectual and political movement, a considerable number of religious anarchists have insisted that their religious tradition necessarily implies an anarchist political stance. Reflecti…
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