Murray Bookchin
Biographic Data
| ID | 483875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Murray Bookchin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Murray |
| FAMILY NAME | Bookchin |
| SIGNATURE | BOOKCHIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goddard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
Les éco-communautés
Dans cet extrait de Social ecology and communalism 1 , Murray Bookchin appelle à la mise en place d'une « confédération d'éco-communautés » qui s'inscrit dans sa pensée d'une écologie sociale et d'un municipalisme libertaire, où la question écologique et la démocratie directe seraient inéluctablement liées
From: Post-Scarcity Anarchism
This chapter discusses the limits of Karl Marxism, a project which, understandably in a period of material scarcity, anchored the social dialectic and the contradictions of capitalism in the economic realm. The dialectic of bureaucratic state capitalism originates in the contradiction between the repressive character of commodity society and the enormous potential freedom opened by technological advance. The absolute negation of the state is anar…
Pouvoir de détruire, pouvoir de créer
Dans cet extrait du manifeste du groupe Ecology Action Eas datant de décembre 1969, Murray Bookchin montre combien la réponse à la crise écologique ne pourra se limiter à une critique de la technologie et de la croissance démographique mais passera nécessairement par une remise en cause de l'emprise de la société hiérarchique. Il s'agit pour lui d'éliminer la hiérarchie en tant que telle, tous les modes de domination sexuelle et parentale, toutes…
Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
Social Ecology and Communalism
Post-scarcity anarchism
Considering the Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era
MURRAY BOOKCHIN is perhaps the best known North American anarchist thinker and activist, a person whose name is linked with the movement and school of thought called ecology. International conferences have been organized to discuss and elaborate the concepts of social ecology — such as the one held in Portugal in August 1998. For more than four decades, his warnings even pre-dating Rachef Carson's Silent Spring, Bookchin has made us conscious of …
Vers une rationalité libertaire
Murray Bookchin, Towards a Libertarian Rationality A distinction between the authoritarian and the libertarian modalities of reason is as decisive for thought and its history as it is for technology. A symbiotic and libertarian rationality constitutes a pervasive presence, a sensibility and a mental state and not a simple train of logic. It is on an existential level that the ambivalences of liberty must be resolved by engaging social principles,…
Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm
This book asks - and tries to answer - several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will its primary goals be the complete transformation of a hierarchical, class, and irrational society into a libertarian communist one? Or will it become an ideology focused on personal well-being, spiritual redemption, and self-realization within the …
To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936
Response to Andrew Light's “rereading Bookchin and Marcuse as environmentalist materialists”∗
Urbanization without cities: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship
Recovering Evolution: A Reply to Eckersley and Fox
Introduction to Elkins
The New Left had the decency to fold up its tents when it became hopelessly entrapped in sectarian forms of Marxism toward the end of the 1960s. This, alas, has not been the case with many of the “new social movements” that surfaced in the 1970s. Today, much that passes for feminism, cultural innovation, neo-Marxism, and a pop-anarchism verging on nihilism has found an exotic life in the academy under the rubric of postmodernism. Far from taking …
The modern crisis
Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left: Interviews and Essays, 1993-1998
On The Last Intellectuals
Jacoby's book is long overdue. If the New Left had merely died in America, it could be viewed with nostalgia and perhaps critical misgivings. Indeed, something could have been learned from its demise: e.g., what is a radicalism suitable for the US and its best traditions? Alas, this has not been the case. In England, a leftist movement that is still mired in 1930s radicalism can still sing “The Workers' Flag is Deepest Red” without seeming ridicu…
Were We Wrong
Is it possible that the Left has been wrong about capitalist development and revolutionary change? Is is possible that 20th-century capitalism is not “moribund;” that the Russian Revolution did not usher in an “era of wars and revolutions,” as predicted by Lenin; that capitalism does not unfold according to an “immanent” dialectic in which lie the “seeds” of its own destruction? Could it be that we are in a ceaseless “ascending phase” of capitali…
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
Between the 30s and the 60s
I strongly doubt if we will ever understandand fully evaluate -the 60s without placing it against the background of another radical decade, the 30s. Having lived out both periods up to the hilt, I find that my older contemporaries as well as the younger people with whom I worked twenty years ago have seldom been able to distance themselves sufficiently from their time to draw these crucial comparisons adequately. Recent biographies by old New Yor…
Finding the Subject: "Notes on Whitebook and "Habermas Ltd
Whitebook has known for years that I reject the very use of the word “modernity.” So his attempt to dissociate me from it is quite gratuitous. He also knows that I reject it for reasons that have nothing to do with a desire to return to “premodernity.” I also reject “sociology” and most of the reified jargon of the Habermas Establishment — a jargon open to the same irony Adorno deployed against the Heideggerians. This is part of my conscious ende…
Ecology as Politics
The ecological imbalances of our time raise a number of questions that challenge every conventional social theory. The split between humanity and nature; the notion that man can dominate nature (a notion that derives from the domination of human by human); the role of the market economy in developing technologies that can undo the work of natural evolution in only a few generations; the absurdity of dealing with ecosystems and food webs in hierar…
Self-Management and the New Technology
Self-management in all its rich and varied meanings has always been closely wedded to technical developments — often to an extent that has not received the explicit attention it deserves. By emphasizing the association between the two, I do not mean to advance a crude, reductionist theory of technological determinism. People are completely social beings. They develop values, institutions and cultural relationships which either foster or inhibit t…
Beyond Neo-Marxism
The failure of socialism, particularly its Marxian variety, to provide a revolutionary alternative has been followed by a highly abstract form of socialist theory that stands sharply at odds with a practical revolutionary project. Its retreat from the factory to the academy—an astonishing phenomenon that cannot be justified by viewing “knowledge” as a technical force in society—has denied socialism the right to a decent burial by perpetuating it …
On The Last Intellectuals
Jacoby's book is long overdue. If the New Left had merely died in America, it could be viewed with nostalgia and perhaps critical misgivings. Indeed, something could have been learned from its demise: e.g., what is a radicalism suitable for the US and its best traditions? Alas, this has not been the case. In England, a leftist movement that is still mired in 1930s radicalism can still sing “The Workers' Flag is Deepest Red” without seeming ridicu…
Beyond Neo-Marxism
The failure of socialism, particularly its Marxian variety, to provide a revolutionary alternative has been followed by a highly abstract form of socialist theory that stands sharply at odds with a practical revolutionary project. Its retreat from the factory to the academy—an astonishing phenomenon that cannot be justified by viewing “knowledge” as a technical force in society—has denied socialism the right to a decent burial by perpetuating it …
Recovering Evolution: A Reply to Eckersley and Fox
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
Change is accompanied by critical science, Ecology provides us with this critical lenses with which we can change society for the better
Introduction to Elkins
The New Left had the decency to fold up its tents when it became hopelessly entrapped in sectarian forms of Marxism toward the end of the 1960s. This, alas, has not been the case with many of the “new social movements” that surfaced in the 1970s. Today, much that passes for feminism, cultural innovation, neo-Marxism, and a pop-anarchism verging on nihilism has found an exotic life in the academy under the rubric of postmodernism. Far from taking …
Between the 30s and the 60s
I strongly doubt if we will ever understandand fully evaluate -the 60s without placing it against the background of another radical decade, the 30s. Having lived out both periods up to the hilt, I find that my older contemporaries as well as the younger people with whom I worked twenty years ago have seldom been able to distance themselves sufficiently from their time to draw these crucial comparisons adequately. Recent biographies by old New Yor…
Ecology as Politics
The ecological imbalances of our time raise a number of questions that challenge every conventional social theory. The split between humanity and nature; the notion that man can dominate nature (a notion that derives from the domination of human by human); the role of the market economy in developing technologies that can undo the work of natural evolution in only a few generations; the absurdity of dealing with ecosystems and food webs in hierar…
Self-Management and the New Technology
Self-management in all its rich and varied meanings has always been closely wedded to technical developments — often to an extent that has not received the explicit attention it deserves. By emphasizing the association between the two, I do not mean to advance a crude, reductionist theory of technological determinism. People are completely social beings. They develop values, institutions and cultural relationships which either foster or inhibit t…
The concept of ecotechnologies and ecocommunities
The Concept of Ecotechnologies and Ecocommunities
The concept of ecotechnologies and ecocommunities
Beyond Neo-Marxism
The failure of socialism, particularly its Marxian variety, to provide a revolutionary alternative has been followed by a highly abstract form of socialist theory that stands sharply at odds with a practical revolutionary project. Its retreat from the factory to the academy—an astonishing phenomenon that cannot be justified by viewing “knowledge” as a technical force in society—has denied socialism the right to a decent burial by perpetuating it …
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
Change is accompanied by critical science, Ecology provides us with this critical lenses with which we can change society for the better
The Spanish anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868-1936
Self-Management and the New Technology
Self-management in all its rich and varied meanings has always been closely wedded to technical developments — often to an extent that has not received the explicit attention it deserves. By emphasizing the association between the two, I do not mean to advance a crude, reductionist theory of technological determinism. People are completely social beings. They develop values, institutions and cultural relationships which either foster or inhibit t…
Ecology as Politics
The ecological imbalances of our time raise a number of questions that challenge every conventional social theory. The split between humanity and nature; the notion that man can dominate nature (a notion that derives from the domination of human by human); the role of the market economy in developing technologies that can undo the work of natural evolution in only a few generations; the absurdity of dealing with ecosystems and food webs in hierar…
Finding the Subject: "Notes on Whitebook and "Habermas Ltd
Whitebook has known for years that I reject the very use of the word “modernity.” So his attempt to dissociate me from it is quite gratuitous. He also knows that I reject it for reasons that have nothing to do with a desire to return to “premodernity.” I also reject “sociology” and most of the reified jargon of the Habermas Establishment — a jargon open to the same irony Adorno deployed against the Heideggerians. This is part of my conscious ende…
Between the 30s and the 60s
I strongly doubt if we will ever understandand fully evaluate -the 60s without placing it against the background of another radical decade, the 30s. Having lived out both periods up to the hilt, I find that my older contemporaries as well as the younger people with whom I worked twenty years ago have seldom been able to distance themselves sufficiently from their time to draw these crucial comparisons adequately. Recent biographies by old New Yor…
Were We Wrong
Is it possible that the Left has been wrong about capitalist development and revolutionary change? Is is possible that 20th-century capitalism is not “moribund;” that the Russian Revolution did not usher in an “era of wars and revolutions,” as predicted by Lenin; that capitalism does not unfold according to an “immanent” dialectic in which lie the “seeds” of its own destruction? Could it be that we are in a ceaseless “ascending phase” of capitali…
Ecology and Revolutionary Thought
The modern crisis
Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left: Interviews and Essays, 1993-1998
On The Last Intellectuals
Jacoby's book is long overdue. If the New Left had merely died in America, it could be viewed with nostalgia and perhaps critical misgivings. Indeed, something could have been learned from its demise: e.g., what is a radicalism suitable for the US and its best traditions? Alas, this has not been the case. In England, a leftist movement that is still mired in 1930s radicalism can still sing “The Workers' Flag is Deepest Red” without seeming ridicu…
Introduction to Elkins
The New Left had the decency to fold up its tents when it became hopelessly entrapped in sectarian forms of Marxism toward the end of the 1960s. This, alas, has not been the case with many of the “new social movements” that surfaced in the 1970s. Today, much that passes for feminism, cultural innovation, neo-Marxism, and a pop-anarchism verging on nihilism has found an exotic life in the academy under the rubric of postmodernism. Far from taking …
Recovering Evolution: A Reply to Eckersley and Fox
Urbanization without cities: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship
Response to Andrew Light's “rereading Bookchin and Marcuse as environmentalist materialists”∗
To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936
Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm
This book asks - and tries to answer - several basic questions that affect all Leftists today. Will anarchism remain a revolutionary social movement or become a chic boutique lifestyle subculture? Will its primary goals be the complete transformation of a hierarchical, class, and irrational society into a libertarian communist one? Or will it become an ideology focused on personal well-being, spiritual redemption, and self-realization within the …
Vers une rationalité libertaire
Murray Bookchin, Towards a Libertarian Rationality A distinction between the authoritarian and the libertarian modalities of reason is as decisive for thought and its history as it is for technology. A symbiotic and libertarian rationality constitutes a pervasive presence, a sensibility and a mental state and not a simple train of logic. It is on an existential level that the ambivalences of liberty must be resolved by engaging social principles,…
Considering the Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era
MURRAY BOOKCHIN is perhaps the best known North American anarchist thinker and activist, a person whose name is linked with the movement and school of thought called ecology. International conferences have been organized to discuss and elaborate the concepts of social ecology — such as the one held in Portugal in August 1998. For more than four decades, his warnings even pre-dating Rachef Carson's Silent Spring, Bookchin has made us conscious of …
Post-scarcity anarchism
Social Ecology and Communalism
Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
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