Visionary essays from a founder of the modern ecology movement.
This edition also includes a new introduction by Dan Chodorkoff, someone who was with Bookchin at the founding of his Institute for Social Ecology and who understand his work better than anyone..
Presented with clarity and fervor, these key works contain the kernels of concerns that would occupy him until his death in 2006.
He was laying the foundations of a truly social ecology: a Society based on decentralization, interdependence, democratic self-management, mutual aid, and solidarity.
Coming out of the unfulfilled promise of the sixties and trying to develop a revolutionary critique of social life that avoided the pitfalls of Marxism, he was at a creative intellectual peak.
Written between 1969 and 1979, the essays in this collection represent a fascinating and fertile period in Bookchin\'s life.
Throughout, he opposes efforts to reduce ecology to a toothless environmentalism, a task as vital today as when these essays were first published.
In this collection of essays, Murray Bookchin\'s vision for an Ecological Society remains central as he addresses questions of urbanism and city planning, technology, self-management, energy, utopianism, and more.
Visionary essays from a founder of the modern ecology movement
