Main entry:

Bookchin, Murray, 1921-2006, author.

Title & Author:

Toward an ecological society / Murray Bookchin ; foreword by Dan Chodorkoff.

Edition:

Second edition.

Publication:

Chico, CA : AK Press, [2024]

Description:

xxii, 298 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: The utopian vision of Murray Bookchin / Dan Chodorkoff -- The power to destroy, the power to create -- Toward an ecological society -- An open letter to the ecology movement -- Energy, "ecotechnology," and ecology -- The concept of ecotechnologies and ecocommunities -- Self-management and the new technology -- The myth of city planning -- Marxism as bourgeois sociology -- On neo-Marxism, bureaucracy, and the body politic -- André Gorz rides again--or, Politics as environmentalism -- Spontaneity and organization -- Conclusion: Utopianism and futurism.

Summary:

In this collection of essays, Murray Bookchin's vision for an ecological society remains central as he addresses questions of urbanism and city planning, technology, self-management, energy, utopianism, and more. Throughout, he opposes efforts to reduce ecology to a toothless "environmentalism," a task as vital today as when these essays were first published. Written between 1969 and 1979, the essays in this collection represent a fascinating and fertile period in Bookchin’s life. Coming out of the unfulfilled promise of the sixties and trying to develop a revolutionary critique of social life that avoided the pitfalls of Marxism, he was entering his creative intellectual peak. He was laying the foundations of a truly social ecology: a society based on decentralization, interdependence, democratic self-management, mutual aid, and solidarity. Presented with clarity and fervor, these key works contain the kernels of concerns that would occupy him until his death in 2006. This edition also includes a new foreword by Dan Chodorkoff, someone who was with Bookchin at the founding of his Institute for Social Ecology and who understand his work better than anyone.

ISBN:

9781849354448 (paperback)
1849354448 (paperback)
(electronic book)
9781849354455
1849354456

Subject:

Social ecology.
Human ecology.
Sociology.
Green movement.
Environmental responsibility.
Environmentalism Social aspects.
Radicalism.
Écologie sociale.
Écologie humaine.
Sociologie.
Écologisme.
Responsabilité environnementale.
Environnementalisme Aspect social.
Radicalisme.
human ecology.
sociology.
radicalism.

Added entries:

Chodorkoff, Dan, writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319633
Call No.: 319633
Copy: 1
Status: Available