The Modern Crisis by Murray Bookchin (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Modern Crisis by Murray Bookchin, Andy Price Four incisive essays from the father of social ecology FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The six essays that comprise it share the view that, as he puts it, our ideas and our practice must be imbued with a deep sense of ethical commitment. Whether he is critiquing the market economy, the state, or the idea - common to both capitalists and certain left materialists - that human beings are motivated solely by greed and self-interest, Bookchin ever reminds us of the ineffable values of freedom, self-consciousness, and social harmony. Though first published in 1986, Bookchins framework still applies. The moral relativism of the 1980s - the politics of lesser-evils and risk vs benefit calculations - has morphed into what we now refer to as both-sidesism and the risk vs benefit calculations of yesterday are the 100,000 acre burn scars seen throughout the American west today. Beyond moral relativism or moral absolutism is an ecologically based ethics - one that sees our selfhood, reason, and freedom as stemming from natures variety and resilience. Bookchins social ecology refuses to separate society from nature. As such one can consider it a philosophy of participation - we cannot develop ecocommunities that arent participatory. We cant save ourselves and the planet without an ethics of freedom. This edition, with a new introduction by Bookchin scholar Andy Price, is a breath of fresh air for a left that seems to have forgotten basic truths. Author Biography Murray Bookchin (1929-2006) was an active voice in the ecology and anarchist movements for more than forty years, and is the author of The Ecology of Freedom and Post-Scarcity Anarchism, among many other books. He was born in New York, NY. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction, by Andy Price Rethinking Ethics, Nature, and Society What is Social Ecology? Market Economy or Moral Economy An Appeal for Social and Ecological Sanity Endnotes About the Author Review "Murray Bookchin is one of the most interesting thinkers about the relationship between humans and the world around them. As this book makes clear, he was decades ahead of his time, and full of insights that can help us right now!"--Bill McKibben, founder of Third Act and 350.org is author of The End of Nature and other books."Murray Bookchin stands at the pinnacle of the genre of utopian social criticism." --Village Voice Review Quote "Murray Bookchin stands at the pinnacle of the genre of utopian social criticism." -- Village Voice Description for Sales People The ethical argument Bookchin makes in The Modern Crisis forces readers to confront our relationship to nature. Corporations and the State have pushed for an ethical consumerism that disempowers communities from turning the tide on the wreckage were leaving behind on the planet. We tend to think of ourselves are similarly culpable for our polluted planet as the Exxons and Fords of the world. Another in our series of Murray Bookchin reprints, bringing the work of a prescient and still popular theorist to a wider audience. Bookchin is the thinker for our times, someone who was calling attention to environmental devastation before Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, and he continued to do so into the 21st Known as one of the more accessible of Bookchins books, the four essays in The Modern Crisis remain unique as pieces of environmental critique because Bookchin makes clear the social, economic, and political causes of our precarious situation, penetrating far more deeply than most, if not all, contemporary theorists. Details ISBN1849354464 Publisher AK Press Language English ISBN-10 1849354464 ISBN-13 9781849354462 Format Paperback Author Andy Price Pages 196 Imprint AK Press Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-02-02 Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-02-02 NZ Release Date 2023-02-02 UK Release Date 2023-02-02 DEWEY 304.2 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:144704199;

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