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The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought Richard Morgan

The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought By Richard Morgan

The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought by Richard Morgan


Summary

This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin's anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. Overall, the book provides a refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin's anarchism.

The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought Summary

The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought: Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension by Richard Morgan

This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin's anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Russian bio-social-medical scientific thought to the extent that ideas about health, sickness, insanity, degeneration, and hygiene were for him not metaphors but rather key political concerns. It goes on to discuss how for Kropotkin's bio-political anarchism, the state, capitalism, and revolution were medical concerns whose effects on the individual and society were measurable by social statistics and explainable by bio-social-medical knowledge. Overall, the book provides a refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin's anarchism.

About Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan completed his doctorate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Knowledge and methods

1. Forms of knowledge

2. Mapping, statistics, and social law

Part II: Diagnoses and remedies

3. The state

4. Capitalism and the bourgeoisie

5. Revolution

Postscript: the ambivalence of Kropotkin's anarchist thought

Additional information

NLS9780367563127
9780367563127
0367563126
The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought: Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension by Richard Morgan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-04-29
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