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The Modern Crisis

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Black Rose Books, 1987 - Nature - 194 pages
Here, "the prophet of the green revolution" identifies social ecology as an alternative to society's head-on collision with disaster. Murray Bookchin exposes the underpinnings of consumerism and contrasts the destructive reality of a market economy with the potential for social and ecological sanity offered by a moral economy.

Murray Bookchin has been a major spokesperson for more than twenty years for the ecology, appropriate technology, and anti-nuclear movements. He is the author of many books, including The Spanish Anarchists, Our Synthetic Environment, The Limits of the City, Toward an Ecological Society, Urbanization Without Cities, Post-Scarcity Anarchism, and The Ecology of Freedom.

The Modern Crisis, in which he proposes a fundamental and empowering reconstruction of politics based on face-to-face municipal democracy, is the perfect introduction to the ideas of this great social theorist.

"Murray Bookchin stands at the pinnacle of the genre of utopian social criticism."---Stanley Aronowitz, The Village Voice

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Four Murray Bookchin essays compiled together provide a decent introduction to his philosophy of 'social ecology.' Basically, the idea that human society and non-human ecology are not a dualism but ... Read full review

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User Review  - Franklin - Goodreads

This is a totally foolish political tract by Bookchin, completely anti-worker, anti-Third World. The model of democracy is the (need I say "slave"?) society of ancient Athens. Sometimes he appears to ... Read full review

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Murray Bookchin's The Modern Crisis | Serendip's Exchange
His book of essays, The Modern Crisis offers four essays that explore many of these key ideas. One theme that permeates this work is the connection between ...
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2008 January « Social Ecology London
The Modern Crisis, Murray Bookchin Which Way for the Ecology Movement? Murray Bookchin ... ‘Market Economy or Moral Economy’, in The Modern Crisis ...
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BLUE: OBITUARY - Murray Bookchin, by Rob Allen for Freedom
... and in The Modern Crisis in 1987), Bookchin believed he needed to write The Philosophy of Social Ecology, which summarised his dialectic progression. ...
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Murray Bookchin, The Modern Crisis (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1986), ... 72 Bookchin, The Modern Crisis , p. 10. 73 Ibid., p. 11. 74 Ibid., p. ...
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Harbinger - The Communalist Project (page 6)
... reprinted by London: Cassell, 1995), and in “Workers and the Peace Movement” (1983), published in The Modern Crisis (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1987). ...
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Social Anarchism/The Social Anarchism Index 1980-1998
Review of The Modern Crisis by Murray Bookchin. No. 13 (1987-88), pp. ... "Murray Bookchin's The Modern Crisis: Part of the Solution and/or Part of the ...
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Through this pinprick of ecological light, it may be possible to salvage Unger's work and recruit him to the 30 M. Bookchin The Modern Crisis (Montreal: ...
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THE MODERN CRISIS. Philadelphia: New Society Publications, 1986. 167 pages. Trade paperback. Very Good+ but for corner cover crease top front and price ...
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The modern crisis. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers. Kohn, A. (1986). No contest: The case against competition Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. ...
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About the author (1987)

Murray Bookchin is cofounder of the Institute for Social Ecology. An active voice in the ecology and anarchist movements for more than forty years, he has written numerous books and articles, including: Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left, Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism, The Spanish Anarchists, The Ecology of Freedom, Urbanization Without Cities, and Re-enchanting Humanity. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

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TitleThe Modern Crisis
Volume 94 of Black Rose books
AuthorMurray Bookchin
Edition2, revised
PublisherBlack Rose Books, 1987
ISBN0920057624, 9780920057629
Length194 pages
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Nature / Ecology
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Social Science / Human Geography
  
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