Visions of Freedom
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Visions of Freedom

Critical Writings on Ecology and Anarchism

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Visions of Freedom

Critical Writings on Ecology and Anarchism

About this book

Every ten years, notoriously eclectic thinker Brian Morris takes a year of sabbatical and launches out into another field about which he knows nothing. In the 1980s it was botany; in the 1990s, zoology; in the 2000s, entomology. The quintessential polymath, Morris has written on his incredible breadth of interests in wide-ranging essays, with subjects ranging from boxing to deep ecology to new-age gurus.Collected here for the first time, Visions of Freedom brings together all of Morris's concise yet diverse essays on politics, history, and ecology written since 1989. It includes book reviews, letters, and articles in the engaging and accessible style for which Morris is known. The thinkers he deals with are as diverse as Thomas Paine to C. L. R. James, from Karl Marx to Krishnamurti, from Max Weber to Naomi Klein. He also delves into the canon of classic anarchist thinkers like Kropotkin, Bakunin, Reclus, Proudhon, and Flores Magnon.Taking a stance against the obscurantism of contemporary academic discourse, Morris' writings demonstrate an interdisciplinary approach that moves seamlessly between topics, developing practical connections between scholarly debates and the pressing social, ecological and political issues of our times.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. CLR JAMES, 1909-1989
  5. BOOKS ABOUT GREENS
  6. THE IGNOBLE ART
  7. TOWARDS A TRANSPERSONAL ECOLOGY
  8. A CRITIQUE OF ECOFEMINISM
  9. MARY DALY AND HER CRITICS
  10. CRITICAL REALISM: MARX AND THE MARKET UNITED?
  11. ON MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  12. A CRITIQUE OF LIBERAL SOCIAL THEORY
  13. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EXCHANGE
  14. THE NATURE OF ECOLOGY
  15. RAJNEESH: THE GOD THAT FAILED
  16. A NEW WORLD ORDER OR CAPITALISM REVAMPED
  17. GUSTAVE COURBET, 1819-1877
  18. GUILD SOCIALISM RESTATED YET AGAIN
  19. THE CHIPKO MOVEMENT
  20. THE ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW
  21. THE GREEN REVOLUTION
  22. THE SHINING PATH
  23. CHRISTIANARCHY: MYSTICAL ANARCHISM, OR JUST PLAIN MYSTICISM?
  24. COLONIZATIONS
  25. FUNDAMENTALISM
  26. TOM PAINE—THE RADICAL LIBERAL
  27. THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUAL
  28. IN DEFENCE OF LITERACY
  29. UTOPIA IN THE AMAZON
  30. TAGORE AND NATIONALISM
  31. AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
  32. TOM PAINE—THE MAN OF REASON
  33. RUDOLF BAHRO: GREEN VISIONARY OR ECO-FASCIST?
  34. BEWARE OF GURUS
  35. PROUDHON AND ANARCHISM
  36. A NOTE ON THE ANARCHISTS OF ISLAM
  37. DEMANDING THE IMPOSSIBLE, 1999
  38. RECLUS, KROPOTKIN AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY
  39. GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP
  40. WEBER AND THE ANARCHISTS
  41. UTOPIAN VISIONS
  42. MYTHS OF MODERN INDIVIDUALISM
  43. BEYOND BOUNDARIES
  44. AGRARIAN SOCIALISM
  45. BEYOND GLOBAL CAPITALISM
  46. EQUALITY AND THE CAPTIVE STATE
  47. WAS NIETZSCHE AN ANARCHIST?
  48. IN DEFENCE OF MICHAEL BAKUNIN
  49. EARTH DEMOCRACY
  50. THE POLITICS OF THE ANARCHIST FEDERATION
  51. ISLAM AND ANARCHISM
  52. POSTSTRUCTURALIST ANARCHISM
  53. BAKUNIN: THE CREATIVE PASSION
  54. SACCO AND VANZETTI
  55. THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE
  56. FLORES MAGÓN AND THE ANARCHIST VISION OF FREEDOM
  57. ESOTERICISM: THE RELIGION OF EMPIRE
  58. KRISHNAMURTI AND ANARCHISM
  59. NAOMI KLEIN AND DISASTER CAPITALISM
  60. ECOLOGY AND CAPITALISM
  61. ECO-STATE SOCIALISM: THE GREEN PARTY MANIFESTO
  62. ANARCHISM IN THE ACADEMY, 2010
  63. FORGOTTEN ANARCHIST-FEMINISTS
  64. THE ANARCHIST IDEA OF COMMUNISM
  65. THE LEGACY OF SAINT-IMIER
  66. KARL MARX—ANTHROPOLOGIST
  67. IN DEFENCE OF THE COMMONS
  68. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ANARCHIST SOLIDARITY