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The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension
By Richard Morgan
Copyright 2021
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin’s anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Russian bio-social-medical scientific thought to the extent that ideas about health, sickness, insanity, degeneration, and hygiene were for him not metaphors but rather key political concerns. It... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Knowledge and methods
1. Forms of knowledge
2. Mapping, statistics, and social law
Part II: Diagnoses and remedies
3. The state
4. Capitalism and the bourgeoisie
5. Revolution
Postscript: the ambivalence of Kropotkin’s anarchist thought
Biography
Richard Morgan completed his doctorate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
