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Murray Bookchin

  • Мюррей Букчин
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Date of birth
1921-01-14
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United States
Date of death
2006-07-30
Place of death
United States

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Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. Influenced by G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Peter Kropotkin, he was a pioneer in the environmental movement. Bookchin formulated and developed the theory of social ecology and urban planning within anarchist, libertarian socialist, and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books covering topics in politics, philosophy, history, urban affairs, and social ecology. Among the most important were Our Synthetic Environment (1962), Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), The Ecology of Freedom (1982), and Urbanization Without Cities (1987). In the late 1990s, he became disenchanted with what he saw as an increasingly apolitical "lifestylism" of the contemporary anarchist movement, stopped referring to himself as an anarchist, and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called "communalism", which seeks to reconcile and expand Marxist, syndicalist, and anarchist thought.

Bookchin was a prominent anti-capitalist and advocate of social decentralization along ecological and democratic lines. His ideas have influenced social movements since the 1960s, including the New Left, the anti-nuclear movement, the anti-globalization movement, Occupy Wall Street, and more recently, the democratic confederalism of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. He was a central figure in the American green movement. An autodidact who never attended college, he is considered one of the last public intellectuals and most important left theorists of the 20th century.

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American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher.

Last modified: 2020-10-09 (revision #31167)

Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Deep Ecology & Anarchism: A PolemicPaperback978-0-900384-67-71993
Die Agonie der Stadt: Städte ohne Bürger oder Aufstieg und Niedergang des freien BürgersPaperback978-3-922209-67-61996
Die Neugestaltung der Gesellschaft: Pfade in eine ökologische ZukunftPaperback978-3-922209-35-51992
Die Formen der Freiheit: Aufsätze über Ökologie und Anarchismus (3. Auflage)Paperback978-3-88178-009-41980
Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable ChasmPaperback978-1-873176-83-21995
Kommunismus und Selbstbestimmung: Spontaneität und OrganisationPaperback978-3-87956-040-01974
Die nächste Revolution: Libertärer Kommunalismus und die Zukunft der LinkenPaperback978-3-89771-594-32015
Die Formen der Freiheit: Aufsätze über Ökologie und Anarchismus (1. Auflage)Paperback978-3-88178-009-41977
Hierarchie und HerrschaftPaperback978-3-87956-134-61981
Будущая революция: Народные ассамблеи и перспектива прямой демократииPaperback?2023
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Goodreads Author ID
34299
ISNI
0000 0001 1467 8750
0000 0003 6859 0628
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OpenLibrary Author ID
OL333834A
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12305586
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Q315910

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