TY - BOOK TI - Bookchin: A critical apprasial SN - 9780745319643 U1 - 300 CY - London PB - Plutopress N1 - PART ONE: BEGINNINGS Introduction 3 Orientations 5 Bookchin's Critics 6 Plan of the Work • 8 1 Environments, Cities and Post-Scarcity Worlds 12 The Political Life of an American Radical 12 Contemporary Issues 14 Neither Washington nor Moscow 15 The Problem of Chemicals in Food 16 Our Synthetic Environment 17 Emerging Themes in Bookchin's Early Writings 18 Post-Scarcity Politics and Ecology as Revolutionary Thought 19 Beyond the New Left 24 Mapping the Arc of Bookchin's Work 24 Intellectual Influences 26 PARTTWOiTHE LEGACY OF DOMINATION 2 Hierarchy, Domination, Nature: Bookchin's Historical Social Theory 31 Marxism and 'Bourgeois Sociology' 32 From Social Classes and the State to Social Hierarchy and Social Domination 34 The Outlook of Organic Society 36 The Emergence of Hierarchy 37 A 'Legacy of Domination' and a 'Legacy of Freedom' 39 Considering Bookchin's Historical Social Theory 40 Organic Society 1: Vagaries and Inconsistencies 42 Organic Society II: Anthropological Evidence and Methodological Concerns 45 After Ecological Romanticism 47 Social Hierarchy/Social Domination 48 Social Hierarchy, Social Domination and the Idea of the Dominating of Nature by Humans 50 Dominant Ideologies and Actual Relations with Nature 52 Time, Space, Social Production and Social Ecologies 55 Domination, Liberation, and the Production, Reproduction and Enframing of Active Nature(s) 56 Domination/Producing/Appropriating Nature 59 3 Social Ecology as Modem Social Theory 62 The Emergence of Capitalism 62 Mapping the Contours of 'Advanced' Capitalism 64 Developing a Critique of 'Advanced' Capitalism 65 Defining the Environmental Agenda 70 The Critique of Neo-Malthusianism 70 Causality and Problem Definition in Socio-Ecological Critique Socio-Ecological Critique without Malthus 75 Post-Scarcity Ecology 77 The Virtues of Bookchin's Approach to Socio-Ecological Critique 4 Capitalism and Ecology The 'Grow or Die' Thesis Bookchin's Macro Eco-Crisis Theory Social Ecology, Political Ecology and the Sociology of Environmental Justice The Sociology of Ecological Modernisation and its Critics Climate Change, Green Governmentality and Nature as an Accumulation Strategy PARTTHREEiTHE LEGACY OF FREEDOM t Ethics and the Normative Grounds of Critique 101 Ecology and Revolutionary Thought 102 Holism, Spontaneity, Non-Hierarchy 103 Developing Dialectical Naturalism 104 Humanity and the Natural World 107 First Nature, Second Nature and Free Nature 108 'Nature' as the Grounds or Matrix for Ethics 109 Social Ecology, Scientific Ecology and Evolutionary Theory 110 'Non-Hierarchical' and 'Mutualistic' Nature? 113 Metaphors and Nature 117 The Ecological Ethics of Social Ecology 118 Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology 120 Hybrid Natures and Active Subjects 123 6 Urbanisation, Cities, Utopia 127 'Crisis in Our Cities' 127 Reification and the Unlimited City 129 'The Limits of the City' 130 The Humanist Concept of the City in History 131 The City as a Human[el Community: Envisaging Ecotopia 134 Bookchin's Critique of the Limitless City 137 Social Ecology and the New Urbanism 138 Suburbs, Ex-Urbs and Social Ecology 143 Eco-Comijiunalism or a Pluralist Eco-Urbanism? 145 Social Ecology and Technology 147 Free Nature: Blending or Maintaining Demarcations? 148 Dissolving or Retrofitting the Modern Metropolis? 150 Utopian Dialogue as 'Public Event' 152 7 Citizens, Politics, Democracy 155 The Po/is and the Political 156 Zoon Politikon, Paideia and Philia 157 The Legacy of Freedom 158 The Rise of the Free Cities, Neighbourhood Communes and City Confederations 160 The Municipal Route to Modernity 162 Libertarian Municipalism: From Here to There 163 The History/Histor{ies) of Civic Freedom 164 From Dionysus to Philia 169 Polls an<^ Cosmopolis 172 Transparency and Complexity 174 Between the Heroic and the Imminent 176 PART FOUR: ENDINGS Conclusion . 181 Re-enchanting Humanity, Disenchanted Bookchin 181- Breaks, Transitions, Excommunications 184 (Harsh) Judgments 187 New Beginnings, or More Considered Judgments 188 Lessons, Legacies and Traces 193 ER -