Bookchin Murray
Bookchin Murray - The Modern Crisis - Paperback
Bookchin Murray - The Modern Crisis - Paperback
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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, Bookchin's 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 nature's variety and resilience. Bookchin's social ecology refuses to separate society from nature. As such one can consider it a philosophy of participation - we cannot develop ecocommunities that aren't participatory. We can't 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.
Title: The Modern Crisis
Author(s): Bookchin Murray
Publisher: Ak Press
Barcode: 9781849354462
Pages: 196 Pages
Publication Date: 8/2/2022
Category: Climate Change
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, Bookchin's 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 nature's variety and resilience. Bookchin's social ecology refuses to separate society from nature. As such one can consider it a philosophy of participation - we cannot develop ecocommunities that aren't participatory. We can't 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.
Title: The Modern Crisis
Author(s): Bookchin Murray
Publisher: Ak Press
Barcode: 9781849354462
Pages: 196 Pages
Publication Date: 8/2/2022
Category: Climate Change
